Path: utzoo!utstat!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!math.lsa.umich.edu!caen!sdd.hp.com!samsung!uunet!drivax!drivax!davison From: davison@dri.com (Wayne Davison) Newsgroups: news.software.b Subject: Re: TRN problem Message-ID: Date: 30 Oct 90 19:12:23 GMT References: <1990Oct25.112816.27533@warwick.ac.uk> <1990Oct26.094738.14905@warwick.ac.uk> Sender: news@dri.com (USENET News System) Followup-To: news.software.b Organization: Digital Research, Monterey CA Lines: 14 Ian Dickinson (cudep@warwick.ac.uk) wrote: > I tried killing mthreads and restarting it, and it all worked fine. > It had been running for a long time (999:99 with ps), so it may be hard > to recreate the problem. But be warned - there may be a problem > with mthreads. There is a known problem in the active2 truncation code -- the variable truncate_len does not get reset to -1 after being used. I'm not certain that this was your problem, but this will be fixed in trn patch #2. (Don't hold your breath, though, I'm still recovering from an auto accident.) -- \ /| / /|\/ /| /(_) Wayne Davison (_)/ |/ /\|/ / |/ \ davison@dri.com (W A Y N e) ...!uunet!drivax!davison