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From: moraes@cs.toronto.edu (Mark Moraes)
Subject: Re: anne.jones dumps core
Message-ID: <90Mar15.235935est.376@smoke.cs.toronto.edu>
Keywords: cnews
Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto
References: <1990Mar15.185725.27695@ccu.umanitoba.ca>
Date: 16 Mar 90 05:00:44 GMT
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mills@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Gary Mills) writes:
>/usr/local/lib/newsbin/inject/anne.jones: 5115 Memory fault - core dumped

It means some program invoked by the anne.jones shell script is dumping
core, the most likely culprit is awk, which does this when confronted
by lines longer than some constant above 2K.  (New awk is slightly
more graceful, and prints an error message, GNU awk reallocates the
buffer till it runs out of memory, it seems) sed is the next likely
culprit, though it usually just silently truncates the line and keeps
going, which is often worse.

If you have a core file around, use 'file' to check what caused it.