Subject: why is there a call to "abort()" in lib/libc/net/rcmd.c ?
To: None <netbsd-users@NetBSD.ORG, port-i386@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Netbsd Mailing List <netbsd@vu.com>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 04/23/1997 20:58:31 
on or about line 403 of lib/libc/net/rcmd.c there is a call to abort()
which is triggered if a call to gethostbyaddr() fails. i discovered this
when i kept finding files in "/" called "rlogind.core".
could somebody explain why that call is necessary at that point?