Re: [CRASH] xemacs-21.2-b2 in pgnus
On 12 Oct 1998 15:03:54 -0700, SL Baur <steve(a)xemacs.org> said:
These are the identical symptoms to the bug I might have isolated a
test case for and posted about last week. Does uudecdoing the XEmacs
killer jpeg crash XEmacs for you?
No. I tried it with both FreeBSD's uudecode and GNU's uudecode from
sharutils-4.2. The killer jpeg causes uudecode to exit immediately with
an error. My FreeBSD uudecode reports:
uudecode: stdin: illegal ~user
So on a hunch, I replaced my uudecode with:
#!/bin/sh
exit 0
I immediately got a crash. But I just tried it three more times and I
didn't. I know I'm stating the obvious, but I guess it's a race
condition.
Come to think of it, after my initial crash, I did a netstat -t and I
noticed that I didn't have a connection to the news server. I didn't
think much about it at the time.
Drew
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