[16901] in Athena Bugs
Re: discuss core
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Hawkinson)
Thu Jun 17 12:03:30 1999
Date: Thu, 17 Jun 1999 12:03:19 -0400 (EDT)
Message-Id: <199906171603.MAA12342@x15-cruise-basselope.mit.edu>
To: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
Cc: bugs@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: "[16900] in Athena Bugs"
From: John Hawkinson <jhawk@MIT.EDU>
| It's a well-known bug that if you ^C an ls in discuss, your connection
| gets out of sync and you have to reenter the meeting. I didn't know
| about the core dump, though.
Yes, the core dump is new in 8.3.
Doing some experiments relinking the discuss client and different malloc
libraries, I observe:
libc (default) core dump
-lmalloc No core dump
-lbsdmalloc No core dump
watchmalloc w/ MALLOC_DEBUG set to WATCH
No core dump
mapmalloc core dump
Perhaps someone should think about either fixing the bug for real
or linking with -lmalloc (that's malloc(3x)) instead.
--jhawk
