Don't set the tty variable to NULL when we lack a tty, leave it as

"unknown".

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/gnu/usr.bin/sudo/sudo/sudo.c b/gnu/usr.bin/sudo/sudo/sudo.c
index c72c49d1674..dd272cc85ba 100644
--- a/gnu/usr.bin/sudo/sudo/sudo.c
+++ b/gnu/usr.bin/sudo/sudo/sudo.c
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-/*	$OpenBSD: sudo.c,v 1.5 1997/11/23 07:15:49 millert Exp $	*/
+/*	$OpenBSD: sudo.c,v 1.6 1997/12/21 23:15:06 millert Exp $	*/
 
 /*
  * CU sudo version 1.5.3 (based on Root Group sudo version 1.1)
@@ -435,10 +435,10 @@ static void load_globals(sudo_mode)
     /*
      * Need to get tty early since it's used for logging
      */
-    if ((tty = (char *) ttyname(0)) || (tty = (char *) ttyname(1))) {
-	if (strncmp(tty, _PATH_DEV, sizeof(_PATH_DEV) - 1) == 0)
-	    tty += sizeof(_PATH_DEV) - 1;
-	if ((tty = (char *) strdup(tty)) == NULL) {
+    if ((p = (char *) ttyname(0)) || (p = (char *) ttyname(1))) {
+	if (strncmp(p, _PATH_DEV, sizeof(_PATH_DEV) - 1) == 0)
+	    p += sizeof(_PATH_DEV) - 1;
+	if ((tty = (char *) strdup(p)) == NULL) {
 	    perror("malloc");
 	    (void) fprintf(stderr, "%s: cannot allocate memory!\n", Argv[0]);
 	    exit(1);