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GREAT!!!! Thanks a lot Tim....this is wonderful !!!! I
had looked at the code and suspected something on
these lines but was hesitant to make the changes.....
thank you very much once again...

Best regards,
Prakash.


--- "R. Timothy Edwards" <tim AT stravinsky DOT jhuapl.edu>
wrote:
> Dear Prakash,
> 
>    The problem comes down to why magic is reporting
> that
> it cannot find "/flock"; e.g., it appears to be
> looking for
> it in the system root directory.
> 
>    I looked through the magic code, and I have found
> what
> must be the error.  In utils/flock.c, line 148 is
> 
>     sprintf(lock_buf, "%s/flock", cad_buf);
> 
> but should be:
> 
>     sprintf(lock_buf, "%s/flock", cad_path);
> 
> Likewise, line 164 should be changed from 
> 
>    sprintf(lock_buf, "%s/flock/lock_%u%u", cad_buf,
> 
> to
> 
>    sprintf(lock_buf, "%s/flock/lock_%u%u", cad_path,
> 
> Otherwise, if the CAD_HOME environment variable is
> set, then cad_buf
> remains empty, and the result is that lock_buf
> becomes "/flock"
> (or worse, since cad_buf was never explicitly
> initialized).
> 
>    You can make these changes by hand and recompile.
>  I will update
> the CVS source distribution with the changes
> immediately.
> 
> 							---Tim


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