Resend patch for 15494

[James Hawkins]

2008/10/8 Chris Ahrendt <celticht32 at aol.com>:
> per dan resending
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> chris
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> From e8ec03471e1206ea93fa6224d7c6b8b61422d80e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Chris Ahrendt <celticht32 at aol.com>
> Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2008 21:02:36 -0400
> Subject: [PATCH] Checked all the states of variables in test to ensure that
> they are not NULL
>

This broad-sweep approach is not correct.  If there is a machine that
is crashing on a NULL interface, then a check needs to be added where
that machine returns a NULL interface and we should then skip those
particular tests.  There are plenty of examples of this you can look
for.

-- 
James Hawkins