[14906] in Athena Bugs
Bug and gripe about send_message
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Hawkinson)
Sat Jan 11 12:22:47 1997
Date: Sat, 11 Jan 1997 12:17:06 -0500
To: dot@MIT.EDU
Cc: cwis-dev@MIT.EDU, bugs@MIT.EDU
From: John Hawkinson <jhawk@MIT.EDU>
A user came into the SIPB office and reported he could not start
Netscape; that the machine printed "Removing lockfile..." in his
Console and just hung.
Further investigation is that it was hanging on send_message as
invoked by the netscape script.
BUG: The user was over quota. Running "truss" on send_message
indicated that it was getting ENOSPC while trying to open a lockfile
(or something), and it was failing to notice this condition but
looping/sleeping/ENOSPC-ing endlessly. This is not sane.
GRIPE: The naming of source files is somewhat nonintuitive. That
send_message gets built from cookie.c rather than send_message.c seems
a little peculiar. I suppose I ought not complain but when I was
logged in as the user I took a cursory search for the send_message
source in /mit/swtools/src, and failed to find it. Looking at it now,
it's obvious form the Makefile what happens, but...
--jhawk
