fix to sendmail / save _environ pointer

Chris Torek chris at umcp-cs.UUCP
Sat Mar 2 09:53:07 AEST 1985


A wonderful example of why using

	write(fd, &edata, sbrk(0) - &edata)

is a Bad Thing.  Both rogue and sendmail do this (rogue does it with
an encryption though) and both programs have various related bugs.

Yes, it's fast, but ..... eeeeauuyuck.
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