[15777] in Athena Bugs
sun4 8.1.14: swtools locker
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jacob Morzinski)
Fri Jan 30 02:26:01 1998
To: bugs@MIT.EDU
Date: Fri, 30 Jan 1998 02:25:57 EST
From: "Jacob Morzinski" <jmorzins@MIT.EDU>
System name: mary-kay-commandos
Type and version: SPARC/5 8.1.14 (with mkserv)
Display type: cgthree
For a long time, I've been wondering why I would occasionally
lose the contents of my .sw_messages file. The loss would cause
me to receive all of the sw messages, all over again.
I think I've a way to force it to happen. I started framemaker
("add frame", "maker"), and then hit ^C roughly 5 seconds after
having started maker. Maker died, as it should.
But, when I started maker a few seconds later, I noticed that I
had lost the contents of my .sw_messages file.
I suspect that flaws in the *_cookie routines in the swtools
locker cause this. Unfortunately, I don't have time to go
through the code and figure out at what point it trashed my file.
So I just restored from my backup volume. I hope that the next
time this happens, I again notice in time to restore the file.
Sincerely,
--
Jacob Morzinski jmorzins@mit.edu
