Newsgroups: news.software.b
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: cnews checkgroups processing core-dumps (SIGSEGV)
Message-ID: <1990Jul18.162721.951@zoo.toronto.edu>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <1990Jul18.101929.23679@ciba-geigy.ch>
Date: Wed, 18 Jul 90 16:27:21 GMT

In article <1990Jul18.101929.23679@ciba-geigy.ch> whna@ciba-geigy.ch (Heinz Naef) writes:
>C News runs on a Sun 3/160 with SunOS 4.0.3 here. We guess that the problem
>started to occur after the upgrade to C News Patch Level 25-May-1990.

My guess would be that the timing was coincidental; I don't think we did
anything to checkgroups in that patch.  What might be significant is the
ever-growing number of newsgroups.  It looks like it hit some limit in
your shell.  Geoff has been heard to mutter about Sun shells; I wouldn't
know because we don't run them ourselves.  (Suns, yes, Sun shells, no.)
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