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From: zeeff@b-tech.ann-arbor.mi.us (Jon Zeeff)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: trn mthreads problem
Message-ID: <%4X_3B$@b-tech.uucp>
Date: 27 Nov 90 14:35:50 GMT
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Organization: Branch Technology
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>A more serious problem was that mthreads catches the segmentation violation
>and tries to clean up. Which posts another segmentation violation ... ad
>infinitum or, because there's an error message in this case, until the
>operator on duty notices that a 20 K log file has just eaten 110 MB out of a
>disk partition with 100 MB free...

I noticed this one too.  Definitely a problem.  Mthreads could also handle
timeouts better (ie, some mechanism where it will terminate if it gets
stuck accessing the nntp server).

I'd be interested if anyone has a patch to make trn detect and fix corrupted
threads files.

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Jon Zeeff (NIC handle JZ)	 zeeff@b-tech.ann-arbor.mi.us