Re: parsing bug

[Aaron Campbell]

On Fri, 22 Sep 2000, Daniel Weaver wrote:

> The fact that reading all zero's causes a fault should be fixed at the
> root of the problem.  I could just as easily fill a file with zero's and
> feed it to TIC causing the same abort.

Did you actually try it?

$ dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/nullfile bs=512 count=1
1+0 records in
1+0 records out
512 bytes transferred in 1 secs (512 bytes/sec)
$ tic /tmp/nullfile
"/tmp/nullfile", line 1, col 1: premature EOF
$