wmartin@brl-tgr.ARPA (Will Martin ) (07/30/85)
I've discovered a situation that consistently causes "rn" to die. I have been making a special effort to see what the new "mod.newprod" group is for. There have been no postings in that group yet at this site, but it has been created. When I do a "g mod.newprod" and then type a "1" to look at the first posting, the system tells me that the last posting in the group is "0" and then it displays this message and dies horribly: Caught a SIGBUS--.newsrc restored Illegal Instruction - core dumped It would probably be a good thing if the code that can't handle zero-content groups would be fixed to not blow up... Thought this might be interesting to you news gurus out there... Will
lwall@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Larry Wall) (08/02/85)
In article <307@brl-tgr.ARPA> wmartin@brl-tgr.ARPA (Will Martin ) writes: > ...There have been no postings in that group yet at this site, but it >has been created. When I do a "g mod.newprod" and then type a "1" to >look at the first posting, the system tells me that the last posting in >the group is "0" and then it displays this message and dies horribly: > >Caught a SIGBUS--.newsrc restored >Illegal Instruction - core dumped > >It would probably be a good thing if the code that can't handle >zero-content groups would be fixed to not blow up... Let's see. I'll fix that one about 4 months ago. Back into my DeLorean... ZAP! Okay, if you install the rn version 4.3 kit that was posted back in May, you should find that the bug is now fixed, unless you're on a different timeline from me. Larry Wall {allegra,burdvax,cbosgd,hplabs,ihnp4,sdcsvax}!sdcrdcf!lwall
ekrell@ucla-cs.UUCP (08/08/85)
In article <307@brl-tgr.ARPA> wmartin@brl-tgr.ARPA (Will Martin ) writes: >I've discovered a situation that consistently causes "rn" to die ... >... >When I do a "g mod.newprod" and then type a "1" to >look at the first posting, the system tells me that the last posting in >the group is "0" and then it displays this message and dies horribly: > >Caught a SIGBUS--.newsrc restored >Illegal Instruction - core dumped > Funny, mod.newprod is also empty down here and I just tried to read article #1 and it came back with a "No articles" message. It didn't core dump. -- Eduardo Krell UCLA Computer Science Department ekrell@ucla-locus.arpa ..!{sdcrdcf,ihnp4,trwspp,ucbvax}!ucla-cs!ekrell