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From: olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: *** X security bug *** Need SGI advice to fix it
Date: 12 Apr 92 19:57:50 GMT
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.  Mountain View, CA

In <1992Apr12.092924.14117@urz.unibas.ch> doelz@urz.unibas.ch writes:

| I know a security hole in the X-Windows environment which enables 
| users to write files in directories owned by root. A user told me that 
| this hole is present on XR3 up to XR5, bsd and SysV - and, shocking 
| enough, it works :-) . 
| 
| Who at SGI is responsible for security issues so that we could work out 
| a fix? 

In general, if you find a security problem (or think you have),
you can send it to postmaster@sgi.com.  These are rare enough
(we hope!) that a special alias isn't worth the effort.

You can also notify CERT, and they will contact the appropriate
people from their contact list (cert@cert.sei.cmu.edu).

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Let no one tell me that silence gives consent,  |   Dave Olson
because whoever is silent dissents.             |   Silicon Graphics, Inc.
    Maria Isabel Barreno                        |   olson@sgi.com
From: silvert@biome.bio.ns.ca (Bill Silvert)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: tftp and COPS
Date: 16 Apr 92 14:36:15 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: Habitat Ecology Div., Bedford Inst. Oceanography

Recently I queried the net about mysterious tftp attempts to access
/etc/motd.  It turns out that COPS does this to check on whether tftp
is configured correctly.  Thanks to Mark Haidl <haidl@cs.uregina.ca>
for pointing this out to me.
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P. O. Box 1006, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, CANADA B2Y 4A2.  Tel. (902)426-1577
InterNet Address: silvert@biome.bio.dfo.ca
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P. O. Box 1006, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, CANADA B2Y 4A2.  Tel. (902)426-1577
InterNet Address: silvert@biome.bio.dfo.ca
From: silvert@biome.bio.ns.ca (Bill Silvert)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Curious problem with "w" and "ps"
Date: 10 Apr 92 18:30:00 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: Habitat Ecology Div., Bedford Inst. Oceanography

I love 4.0.1, always something exciting to keep me from my research...

Yesterday I was playing around with my configuration files (.sgisession,
.Xdefaults, .chestrc) and noticed that the system was slowing down.  So
I ran ps to see whether I had started some runaway processes, but the
window froze -- no response, and although my keystrokes were echoed I
couldn't abort.  Another window, same problem.  Is someone playing with
the system?  I wondered, and tried w.  That had the same effect.
Another window and I ran last -- that worked OK.  So last worked, but
not w or ps.

I logged out and logged in on a separate account that had no
configuration files.  Same problem!  All I can figure out was that
something was running that didn't die when I logged out and which kept
ps and w from functioning.

Finally I rebooted and that solved the problem.  Any ideas what happened?
And how can I get a clearer diagnosis if it happens again, given that I
can't run ps.
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William Silvert, Habitat Ecology Division, Bedford Inst. of Oceanography
P. O. Box 1006, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, CANADA B2Y 4A2.  Tel. (902)426-1577
InterNet Address: silvert@biome.bio.dfo.ca
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William Silvert, Habitat Ecology Division, Bedford Inst. of Oceanography
P. O. Box 1006, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, CANADA B2Y 4A2.  Tel. (902)426-1577
InterNet Address: silvert@biome.bio.dfo.ca
From: sem@masg1.epfl.ch
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: GL-FM to X11
Date: 10 Apr 92 16:15:39 GMT
Organization: Math. Dept., Swiss Institute of Technology

Hi,
I'd like to know whether it is possible to use the X font manager instead
of the IRIS FM in an otherwise genuine GL application. (The idea being
of course to make this application portable to non-SGI platforms).
Any suggestions ?

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K.-D. Semmler
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology
Math. Dept                             e-mail : sem@masg1.epfl.ch
CH-1015 Lausanne (Switzerland)
From: olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: Video Cable Length
Date: 9 Apr 92 06:40:07 GMT
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.  Mountain View, CA

In <29953@adm.brl.mil> parker@adms15.fnal.gov (Anthony Parker) writes:
|       I'm not sure if this is the place to ask this, but I
|    am interested in finding out the limit on the length of
|    the video cable for a 4D/25. We have a situation where
|    a 15ft. cable would make life much easier by letting the
|    monitor/keyboard set farther away from the existing
|    ethernet connection. They have told us we cannot extend
|    the ethernet. I have seen premade cables available in
|    lengths of 15 ft. Is it okay to use one of these cables
|    on the machine, what would be the result/consequences ?

SGI has (or had at one time) a 75 foot monitor cable on the
price list.  With a decent cable, this is about as far
as you can get without getting pretty fuzzy; I've heard
that with an extremely high quality cable, you can get to
about 100 feet.  Your limits may vary.

EIA 423 should have no problems with up to 100 feet either,
since the mouse is at 4800 baud, and the keyboard at 600.
--
Let no one tell me that silence gives consent,  |   Dave Olson
because whoever is silent dissents.             |   Silicon Graphics, Inc.
    Maria Isabel Barreno                        |   olson@sgi.com
From: yates@a.chem.upenn.edu (John H. Yates)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: read with noecho
Date: 8 Apr 92 00:34:27 GMT
Article-I.D.: netnews.73163
Organization: University of Pennsylvania
Originator: yates@a.chem.upenn.edu

I need to call a function or routine from Fortran
that will prompt the user for a password, not
echo it as it is typed, and return that password
to the calling program for checking.

Can anyone supply, or point me to such an example for
SGI IRIX for 4D hardware, or on a MS DOS 5.0 platform?
(I need to get this working on both).

I had this working on VAX/VMS with system sys$qio
calls coded in Fortran. I now need to port the code
to DOS and IRIX now, and just be done with it.

The called routine can be in Assembler, Fortran, or
C, it only needs to be called from my Fortran.

Thanks, John
yates@a.chem.upenn.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
From: williams@agomoda.asd.sgi.com (Eric Williams)
Subject: Re: Having windows pop up without click-to-place
Organization:  Silicon Graphics, Inc.  Mountain View, CA
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1992 23:58:45 GMT

In <jgqb7p4@fido.asd.sgi.com> rck@fangio.asd.sgi.com (Robert Keller) writes:

>jps8@po.CWRU.Edu (James P. Schwonek) writes:
>>I am interested in the answer to this also.
>
>4Dwm*interactivePlacement:      false
>
>This is a window manager specific configuration thing.  If you 
>use twm, etc...  check out the man page for that window manager,
>it knows a lot and is your friend!

If you use 4Dwm you should also look at the mwm(1X) man page.
Many of the plain vanilla options to 4Dwm are only described in
detail there.

-Eric
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
From: rudy@alias.com (Rudy Wortel)
Subject: Re: vi bug?
Organization: Alias Research, Inc., Toronto ON Canada
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1992 14:31:24 GMT

In <1992Apr1.160252.10987@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> dweber@ncsa.uiuc.edu (Daniel Weber) writes:

... Stuff about getting the right .exrc

To always read the .exrc in the current directory.

setenv EXINIT 'source ./.exrc'

This works on my 4D35TG running 4.0.1.

--------------------------------------------------

On a related note; i also had a problem where i had multiple windows up
and wanted a different .exrc to be used in each regardless of where i
was. What i did was

1) not have a .exrc in my home directory or any directory i normally visit
2) set my EXINIT environment variable to

	setenv EXINIT 'source "$HOME/etc/projct.exrc"

3) have a bunch of aliases that change the EXINIT and rebuild the
	project.exrc files in $HOME/etc as needed.

ie.

alias project1 "source $HOME/etc/project1rc"

Where project1rc contains something that looks similar to

setenv PROJ whatever
cp $HOME/etc/base_exrc $HOME/etc/${PROJ}.exrc
echo "set tags=tags\ /usr/src/$PROJ/tags" >>$HOME/etc/${PROJ}.exrc
setenv EXINIT "source $HOME/etc/${PROJ}.exrc"

Hope this helps.

-rudy
From: arc@kaibab.wpd.sgi.com (Andrew Cherenson)
Subject: Re: putenv, getenv
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.  Mountain View, CA
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1992 20:44:26 GMT

In article <1992Apr8.131508.11516@aio.jsc.nasa.gov> sharon@ted.jsc.nasa.gov (Sharon Goza) writes:
>Since upgrading our systems to 4.0.1, we've noticed a problem with putenv and
>getenv.  If you compile the following program with cc -ansiposix the putenv and
>getenv do not work.  Has anyone had any similar problems?
>
>-----------------------------------------------------------------
>#include <stdio.h>
>
>main()
>{
>
>	putenv("TESTV=testv");
>	printf("%s",getenv("TESTV");
>}
>-----------------------------------------------------------------
>
>the printf prints (null).  If I compile without the -ansiposix, the program
>works.  We are using the -ansiposix to get our popen commands to work.

It was fixed in 4.0.2.
From: silvert@biome.bio.ns.ca (Bill Silvert)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: TFTP -- resolved
Date: 10 Apr 92 12:21:47 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: Habitat Ecology Div., Bedford Inst. Oceanography

I recently posted a query about problems with tftp.  Although I thought
I had tested it correctly, I apparently screwed up, and it does work as
specified in the manual.  Specifically, the only way to put a file on the
host machine is with "put file1 /usr/.../file2", where file2 exists and is
world writable.

I had tried this and gotten an access violation error, but it is evident 
that I must have made a mistake, such as typing the full pathname of file2
incorrectly.

Apologies, Bill
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William Silvert, Habitat Ecology Division, Bedford Inst. of Oceanography
P. O. Box 1006, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, CANADA B2Y 4A2.  Tel. (902)426-1577
InterNet Address: silvert@biome.bio.dfo.ca
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William Silvert, Habitat Ecology Division, Bedford Inst. of Oceanography
P. O. Box 1006, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, CANADA B2Y 4A2.  Tel. (902)426-1577
InterNet Address: silvert@biome.bio.dfo.ca
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
From: vjs@rhyolite.wpd.sgi.com (Vernon Schryver)
Subject: Re: SLIP configuration aid wanted
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.  Mountain View, CA
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1992 20:52:49 GMT

In article <1992Apr14.192452.14124@urz.unibas.ch>, doelz@urz.unibas.ch writes:
> 
> ...
> Apr 14 18:30:08 modl login[1406]: slip-mac on /dev/ttyf4
> Apr 14 18:30:08 modl slip[1406]: starting from 131.152.1.2 to 131.152.1.103 on


If it were me, I'd run `netsnoop -i slo -xvvv` on the IRIS after 
SLIP starts up.

It might also be useful to add more -d's to the remoteslip line.


Vernon Schryver,  vjs@sgi.com

Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
From: paquin@kahua.esd.sgi.com (Tom Paquin)
Subject: Re: xmodmap FAQ
Organization: Silicon Graphics Inc.
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 92 16:19:13 GMT

In article <30017@adm.brl.mil>, pdi!shoshana@sgi.sgi.com (Shoshana Abrass) writes:

|>                !
|>                ! Swap Caps_Lock and Control_L
|>                !
|>                remove Lock = Caps_Lock
|>                remove Control = Control_L
|>                keysym Control_L = Caps_Lock
|>                keysym Caps_Lock = Control_L
|>                add Lock = Control_L
|>                add Control = Caps_Lock

The last two lines look suspect.  Anyway, the following shell
script appears to work jes' fine.  Please give it a try.

---------------------------------8< cut here-------------------------
#!/bin/sh
xmodmap - << END
clear lock
remove control = Control_L
remove lock = Caps_Lock
keycode 11 = Control_L
keycode 10 = Caps_Lock
add control = Control_L
add lock = Caps_Lock
END
---------------------------------8< cut here-------------------------


		-Tom
*****
Opinions are mine, etc.
From: imd1707@uk0x08.ggr.co.uk (Ian Dunkin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: How do I feed my workstations?
Date: 7 Apr 92 21:54:50 GMT
Article-I.D.: adm.29947

Steve,

>  *** Huh?  We have bunches of DECstations here, and *NO* way are any of them
>      a "fast NFS box".  In fact, of all the architectures here (Sun, DEC,
>      SGI, HP, IBM, Cray,...) the DECstations are far and away the *slowest*
>      NFS boxes.  Our Epoch is much faster.

Ah...  we were told, by Epoch suppliers here in the UK (Thame) that one
should think of an Epoch more as an *archive* server, and that it isn't
so good used as an NFS server.  Is this not so, in your experience?

    Ian.

Ian Dunkin, GGR UK.
JANET:      imd1707@uk.co.ggr.uk0x08
Internet:   imd1707%uk0x08.ggr.co.uk@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
From: joel@jellotrees.esd.sgi.com (Joel Tesler)
Subject: Re: Trying to run fsn (fusion)
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 92 21:04:51 GMT

In article <jae14us@fido.asd.sgi.com>, rck@fangio.asd.sgi.com (Robert Keller) writes:
|> lipman@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Robert Lipman) writes:
|> >I just picked up fsn (fusion) from sgi.com.  
|> :
|> >Do I need 4.0?
|> 
|> yes.
|> 
|> ...robert

4.0.1 actually.
-- 
Joel Tesler
joel@sgi.com
415-335-7498
From: bob@caw2.4950tw.wpafb.af.mil (Bob Plested)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Security holes et al.
Date: 6 Apr 92 17:41:17 GMT

Speaking as a novice Unix user & site administrator, the most fustrating
part of this whole security issue is SGI's assumption that every person
charged with operating these machines is well versed in Unix. Why would I
automatically review the passwd file on a new machine? How would I spot
an open account? Is an open account safe with an unsecure shell? 

These things I've learned, but I CERTAINLY did not know them on December 13,
when I became the proud reciever of a new SGI system, minus site admin kit.

I really like the system, and all the SGI people I've contacted for help have
been exceptional, from the Hotline right down to our field engineer. This
has been the only real complaint, but I think its a big one.

Still learning,
Bob
------------
Bob Plested                    bob@caw2.4950tw.wpafb.af.mil
4950th Test Wing/FFDA              134.136.241.11 
(513) 257-6809 DSN 787-6809
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
From: edut@cs.technion.ac.il (Ilana Edut)
Subject: inetd on diskless machines
Organization: Technion, Israel Inst. Tech., Haifa Israel
Distribution: comp
Date: 8 Apr 92 07:33:23 GMT

Hi,
We have here in the lab two diskless machines (4D-20TG) which are feeded from
a fileserver (4D-25S).
A week ago we upgraded from 3.3.2 to 4.01 and two problems were found:

1. We found that when the file server is rebooted,  The 'inetd' on the diskless
machines is falling and we must rerun it to enable rlogin, ftp and so. Any Ideas
why?

2. Another problem is that the two diskless machines working much sllllower 
then under 3.3.2 - Is it known problem? Any Ideas.

Please reply by E-mail - Any help will be appreciated.

--- 
Ilana Edut
Intelligent System Lab.
Computer Science
Technion - Israel 
Internet: edut@isis.cs.technion.ac.il

Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
From: gavin@krypton.asd.sgi.com (Gavin Bell)
Subject: Re: X11R5
Organization:  Silicon Graphics, Inc.  Mountain View, CA
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1992 17:19:33 GMT

In <SUHONEN.92Apr15104021@jalka.jyu.fi> suhonen@jalka.jyu.fi (Timo Suhonen) writes:
>How about 3D X graphics??

I can't let this one go by.  The sample implementation of PEX in
X11R5, in my humble opinion, is a pretty poor 3D graphics system.

It doesn't do any hidden surface or hidden line removal.  Which means
you are stuck doing 3D wireframe graphics or implementing hidden
surface removal yourself (yeah, right).

And you get to program in PHIGS.  Happy Happy Joy Joy.

I think you would be much better off getting VOGL (Very Ordinary GL),
a subset of the GL written by some folks in Australia.  I don't think
it does any hidden line or surface removal, either, but at least you
can program for a sane API.  And port to the OpenGL after it
establishes itself as the One True 3D Graphics Standard.

These are my own opinions.

--
--gavin     (gavin@sgi.com,  (415)335-1024)
From: silvert@biome.bio.ns.ca (Bill Silvert)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: What is "lines"?
Date: 9 Apr 92 15:06:17 GMT
Reply-To: silvert@biome.bio.dfo.ca (Bill Silvert)
Distribution: na
Organization: Habitat Ecology Div., Bedford Inst. Oceanography

In <jamr9rk@zuni.esd.sgi.com> olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson) writes:

If anyone should know the answer Dave should, but....

>We ship a demo called 'lines'.  How about if you invoke your program
>as ./lines, or just call it something else (or move your lines program
>to one of your bin dirs ahead of the one with the lines program).

>There is no builtin command called lines that I can find in the csh
>source, so it must be something else in your path.  Try 'which lines'.

The existence of /usr/demo/bin/lines has been brought to my attention, but
it isn't in my path, and in any case this is not the program that is run
when I try lines.  Both which and which -a indicate only one lines, the
one I put in /usr/local/bin.  And yes, it runs if I give a path for it,
but since it is the lines in my path, and works under sh but not csh,
and I don't have an alias called lines, I remain baffled.
-- 
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William Silvert, Habitat Ecology Division, Bedford Inst. of Oceanography
P. O. Box 1006, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, CANADA B2Y 4A2.  Tel. (902)426-1577
InterNet Address: silvert@biome.bio.dfo.ca
From: silvert@biome.bio.ns.ca (Bill Silvert)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Curious tftp activity
Date: 15 Apr 92 22:25:06 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: Habitat Ecology Div., Bedford Inst. Oceanography

I've noticed several attempts by tftp to access /etc/motd.  Here are
the latest log entries:

Apr  8 10:08:46 biome tftpd[23265]: biome.bio.dfo.ca: read request for /etc/motd: Access violation
Apr 13 16:48:00 biome tftpd[25547]: biome.bio.dfo.ca: read request for /etc/motd: Access violation
Apr 15 16:22:05 biome tftpd[11690]: biome.bio.dfo.ca: read request for /etc/motd: Access violation

They appear to be coming from my own machine, but it doesn't seem that
anyone here is carrying out this activity, and the irregularity seems to
rule out inadvertent cron stuff.  It doesn't seem worth worrying about,
unless someone is testing the system by trying to get an innocuous file
(obviously a red flag would go up if they went after /etc/passwd instead
of /etc/motd).  Any ideas?
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William Silvert, Habitat Ecology Division, Bedford Inst. of Oceanography
P. O. Box 1006, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, CANADA B2Y 4A2.  Tel. (902)426-1577
InterNet Address: silvert@biome.bio.dfo.ca
-- 
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William Silvert, Habitat Ecology Division, Bedford Inst. of Oceanography
P. O. Box 1006, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, CANADA B2Y 4A2.  Tel. (902)426-1577
InterNet Address: silvert@biome.bio.dfo.ca
From: senseman@lonestar.utsa.edu (David M. Senseman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: Indigos with slow ethernet: a totally unofficial patch
Date: 5 Apr 92 13:08:37 GMT
Organization: University of Texas at San Antonio

In article <j5khsbg@sgi.sgi.com> rpw3@rigden.wpd.sgi.com (Rob Warnock) writes:
>senseman@lonestar.utsa.edu (David M. Senseman) writes:
>+---------------
>| bartlett@violet.berkeley.edu writes:
>| >...this little program might improve things....
>| >Compile it, and run it as root in the background.
>| [ PROGRAM DELETED]
>| 
>| It compiles fine, no warnings or errors. However every time I try to run it I 
>| get some error like:
>| 
>| syntax error at line 1: `^A`^B)]N^A$`8^A^G^B' unexpected  
>| 
>| I have checked the code, looked for unwanted characters at the end of the 
>| line, etc. Even 'linted' the source, nothing. Anyone else have a problem
>| with this code?
>+---------------
>
>I cannot comment on its efficacy, but on my system it does compile and run
>(and make the Ethernet receiver promiscuous, as Dave Olson noted).
>
>Could you possibly have another binary file of the same name (with execute
>permissions) earlier in your $PATH? 

[stuff deleted]

>-Rob
>

Rob,

My error was SO STOOPID that you guys would have never guessed it!
(For some braindead reason I added the -c flag to the compiler line :-P  )

Anyway, when you compile the program correctly, it does seem to help
alot. We are going to isolate the Indigo flock from the main ethernet
backbone tomorrow so we know more about the problem then. But given that this
program seems to help, it's starting to look like our Indigos are
a promiscuous breed -- at least when it comes to computer-to-computer
intercourse :) We never saw this problem with our earlier machines.

-- 
              David Senseman (senseman@lonestar.utsa.edu)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
From: gbnewby@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu (Gregory B. Newby)
Subject: Re: To compile C and Fortran together (thanks!!!!)
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1992 15:36:02 GMT


Thanks in public to all who helped me with my question about
compiling C and Fortran together on my Iris.         

 -- Greg Newby, U. of Illinois
    gbnewby@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu

Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
From: favre@seas.gwu.edu (Jean M. Favre)
Subject: Explorer and Finite Element Data?
Organization: George Washington University
Distribution: usa
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1992 13:49:04 GMT


Can someone save me some time and tell me how to proceed to read in FE data?
I need to read in a 4xN matrix (4 points per tetrahedron), the x,y,z
coordinates of the points (another 3xN2) matrix and the results stored as an
MxN2 matrix. N2 is the number of points, M the number of unknowns.

I have looked at DataScribe and could not find any hints/pointers to the
problem.

I am somewhat of a beginner with Explorer but have had no problem visualizing
Finite Difference-type data.

Thanks in advance.

-- 
Jean M. Favre. EE&CS Dept. The George Washington University
		(202) 994 5917
		favre@seas.gwu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
From: rhbartel@watcgl.waterloo.edu (Richard Bartels)
Subject: SGI's C++, SGI's C, Irix 4.0.1
Keywords: trouble in River City
Organization: Computer Graphics Laboratory, University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
Date: Sat, 11 Apr 1992 22:53:06 GMT

I would like to know whether I am the only one.

I have SGI's C++ version 2.0 and have recently installed
Irix 4.0.1, which came with a new C (and libC and ...).

Nobody sent any updates to C++.  The result has been a disaster.
Notably static class members appear to be generated multiple
times (causing havoc at execution), and calls of objects by copy
(the normal C convention) as distinct from call by reference or
call by pointer cause compiler errors.  A commercial class
library (Rogue Wave) that we have used for close to two years
breaks on execution and most of our own code breaks on compilation.

I have had a call in to SGI's hot line for about 3 days now, but
nothing of remedy has been offered.

Who else has noticed anything wrong with SGI's C++
after the 4.0.1 upgrade?

-Richard