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From: brown@nicmad.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.news.b
Subject: Re: rare but catastrophic bug in 2.10.2
Message-ID: <511@nicmad.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 11-Jan-86 16:42:54 EST
Article-I.D.: nicmad.511
Posted: Sat Jan 11 16:42:54 1986
Date-Received: Mon, 13-Jan-86 01:04:13 EST
References: <2641@glacier.ARPA>
Reply-To: brown@nicmad.UUCP (Mr. Video)
Organization: Nicolet Instrument Corp. Madison WI
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In article <2641@glacier.ARPA> reid@glacier.ARPA (Brian Reid) writes:
>This was extremely easy to fix--just take out the exit(0) after the call
>to fork(), and replace it with a log() call so that some record of this
>event will be made. What this does is causes the parent process to do
>the insertion work if the fork fails.

Well, I did your fix and it caused another problem.  If one posts an article
the article gets posted, but another following article get posted containg
the single character: ^?

If I try to cancel it, from within rn, the previous article gets dumped.

Not so good.
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