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From: roberto@keltia.Freenix.FR (Ollivier Robert)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc
Subject: Re: ftpd uploading problems
Date: 4 Oct 1995 15:07:53 GMT
Organization: Herve Schauer Consultants
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In article <JOE.95Oct2013005@ns.via.net>, Joe McGuckin <joe@ns.via.net> wrote:
> I've seen this on FreeBSD. It's when store() writes out to the logfile. It
> appears that some args to sprintf are not aligned properly on the stack.

wu-ftpd is not 64-bit clean.  When it is trying  to write the log file,  it
writes  64-bits data with %d  instead of %qd. It has  been fixed in FreeBSD
long ago so I guess it has been in BSD/OS too. 

[ Cc: to Joe ]
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