[10356] in Athena Bugs
track - bogus error message
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jim Haynes)
Fri Mar 12 18:24:15 1993
From: haynes@cats.UCSC.EDU (Jim Haynes)
Date: Fri, 12 Mar 93 15:24:08 -0800
To: bugs@Athena.MIT.EDU
This is running at UCSC on a sun4c machine, SunOS 4.1.1 - but it might
happen at MIT someday...
Doing a track -w, it's bombing out with
***track: alloc failed: 23100 statfile lines
system error is 'Bad file number'.
Working on list named ./slists/srvd_update & entry #1: '.'
Now in fact by printing the errno at the point of error I see that it's
12, ENOMEM, which makes a lot more sense for a malloc failure. Something
that happens after reporting the error must be stomping on the errno or
causing a secondary error that changes it.
Meanwhile I'm trying to figure out why track should bomb out at all; but
that's a separate problem (I believe).
