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From: philwzo@cs.mcgill.ca (Philippe WIECZOREK)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: OpenPanel bug ?
Keywords: NFS, OpenPanel
Message-ID: <1991Feb26.222639.19989@cs.mcgill.ca>
Date: 26 Feb 91 22:26:39 GMT
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Organization: SOCS, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
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Originator: philwzo@homer


		On any open panel, try to go in a directory, which has a
	father directory not readable for you, by specifying it using
	the keyboard.

		This blocks your application for a while and then ends by
	quitting it with a segmentation fault.

		Sometimes, instead of the segmentation fault, it issues 
	lot of postscript errors:
	
	DPS client library error: PostScript program error, DPSContext 17e534
	%%[ Error: limitcheck; OffendingCommand: gsave ]%%
	
		Or sometimes, both happen...
		
		In fact, I ran gdb on the application. The NeXT seems to
	fall in an infinite loop until the stack explodes.

		Our NeXTs run under NFS, and that is probably that which
	causes this strange bug.
		
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philwzo@cs.mcgill.ca				Phil,
						McGill University,
						Montreal, Quebec,
						CANADA.
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