4.3 inetd bug

[Chris Torek]

In article <2682 at cuuxb.ATT.COM> bsteve at cuuxb.ATT.COM (Netnews Administrator)
[Netnews Administrator??] writes:
>The expression and assignment on line 411 of src/etc/inetd.c of 4.3
>results in an ambiguous assignment. 
>
>	sep->se_wait = strcmp(arg, "wait") == 0;

This is not ambiguous---it means

	call strcmp with arguments `arg' and `wait'

	compare result of strcmp with 0, producing 1 (if equal) or 0
	(if not equal)

	assign result of comparison (0/1) to sep->se_wait

Any compiler that does something else is broken.
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