[Cvs-dev] cvs-passwd patch: weird problem

[Prasad J Pandit]

  Hello Mark :) hello Derek :)

Hello all :). Finally, onec again, I'm working on the cvs-passwd patch. 
But, for last couple of days I'm observing a very weird behaviour of it.

  see, on the cvs server side, my function spasswd () receives the user 
credentials as argument, and calls another function change_pass (). The 
problem is, it works properly, IF and ONLY IF, I print value of variable 
'str (a char *)' or encrypted password 'pass (a char *)' before calling 
change_pass ().
  And if I don't do that, I've observed, value of variable 'usr (a char *) 
changes to empty string ""(actually it points to some different address 
all together), and the same is received by function chage_pass (), which 
in turn causes it to fail. :(

I recently upgraded to a new machine with FC5 running on it. And it's on 
this machine I fist saw this problem, back then, it's like if I print "\n" 
before calling change_pass (), it would work, otherwise it wouldn't; 
Using fflush (stdout) solved it then, but now it's not enough. I'm not 
able to figure out what am I doing wrong.

Could you please look into it? You can get this unstable source at

http://www.cdacbangalore.in/~prasad/tools/cvs-1.12.13.unstable.tar.bz2

file: passwd.c, passwd.h
function: spasswd ();

Thank you! :)
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regards
   -Prasad
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