[17078] in Athena Bugs
Re: sun4 8.3.13: discuss
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Thu Aug 19 11:55:01 1999
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To: "Nathan J. Williams" <nathanw@MIT.EDU>
cc: bugs@MIT.EDU
In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 19 Aug 1999 11:48:01 EDT."
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Date: Thu, 19 Aug 1999 11:54:51 EDT
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
> Discuss in 8.3 loses even more than discuss in 8.2 did.
> Instead of just complaining "Error printing transaction: Premature end of block", it also coredumps.
I suspect the increased lossage is a coincidence of what data is still
waiting after you ^C the ls, and of where in the code you were when
you hit ^C. Fixing this bug is not trivial, so I don't want to
guarantee that it will happen any time soon.
