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From: rws@EXPO.LCS.MIT.EDU
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: rgb database corruption
Message-ID: <8906142323.AA04774@expire.lcs.mit.edu>
Date: 14 Jun 89 23:23:52 GMT
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Here's an unofficial diff fragment to server/os/4.2bsd/osinit.c that might or
might not cause this problem to disappear.  You can try it if you are being
pestered by this problem.  You should probably ignore it if you aren't.
Your mileage may vary.

*** 60,70 ****
  	{
  	    long t; 
  	    char *ctime();
  	    fclose(stdin);
  	    fclose(stdout);
  	    sprintf (fname, ADMPATH, display);
! 	    if (!freopen (fname, "a+", stderr))
! 		freopen ("/dev/null", "w", stderr);
  #if defined(macII) || defined(hpux)
  	    {
  	    static char buf[BUFSIZ];
--- 60,80 ----
  	{
  	    long t; 
  	    char *ctime();
+ 	    FILE *err;
  	    fclose(stdin);
  	    fclose(stdout);
  	    sprintf (fname, ADMPATH, display);
! 	    /*
! 	     * uses stdio to avoid os dependencies here,
! 	     * a real os would use
!  	     *  open (fname, O_WRONLY|O_APPEND|O_CREAT, 0666)
! 	     */
! 	    if (!(err = fopen (fname, "a+")))
! 		err = fopen ("/dev/null", "w");
! 	    if (err && (fileno(err) != 2)) {
! 		dup2 (fileno (err), 2);
! 		fclose (err);
! 	    }
  #if defined(macII) || defined(hpux)
  	    {
  	    static char buf[BUFSIZ];