From: Steven L Baur <steve@miranova.com>
Subject: Re: Humor value: user error
Date: 22 Nov 1996 10:50:27 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2u3qi6k24.fsf@deanna.miranova.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Karl Kleinpaste's message of 22 Nov 1996 12:14:59 -0500
>>>>> "Karl" == Karl Kleinpaste <karl@jprc.com> writes:
Karl> a short route to an xemacs core dump under gnus:
Karl> # share scorefiles between news servers.
Karl> # e.g., usual server and test host on local machine.
Karl> cd ~/News
Karl> ln -s . nntp+localhost
Karl> xemacs
Karl> M-x gnus
Karl> SPC
Karl> "Finding all score files..."
Karl> observe that it's, um, taking quite a while, hm.
Karl> do `ps aux | sort -nr +4 | head' to see how big things are getting.
Karl> make shocked look on face at observing that xemacs is getting
Karl> *REALLY* *REALLY* *BIG*. i mean, let's be serious, 94Mb, and it
Karl> wasn't done yet...
Karl> watch xemacs complain, toss chunks, and drop core file.
Karl> make far-too-belated realization that xemacs is chasing infinitely
Karl> across nntp+localhost -> . in search of scorefiles, and (gee, wow,
Karl> howzabout that) managing to find more and more and More and MORE and
Karl> *MORE* of them.
Karl> bozo. sheesh. *sigh*
Karl> (if it matters to anyone, XEmacs 19.14 under RH4.0 Linux.)
1. A current workaround is to use long filenames for scorefiles.
2. This is a Gnus bug, and not an XEmacs bug (or an Emacs bug) since
the problem occurs in the function `gnus-score-score-files-1' and
it chokes and dies just as readily in Emacs 19.34 when there's a
circular directory structure.
A fix would be to keep a cache of expanded directory names, and
not search the same directory twice after expansion of symbolic links.
--
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~1996-11-22 18:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1996-11-22 17:14 Karl Kleinpaste
1996-11-22 18:50 ` Steven L Baur [this message]
1996-11-22 20:14 ` Rich Pieri
1996-11-22 21:19 ` Michael R Cook
1996-11-22 22:20 ` Karl Kleinpaste
1996-11-25 14:09 ` Rich Pieri
1996-11-22 20:36 ` David Moore
1996-11-22 22:45 ` Steven L Baur
1996-11-22 19:35 ` Rich Pieri
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