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From: dougm@ico.ISC.COM (Doug McCallum)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: GNU emacs on UNIX V.3/80386, minor problems
Message-ID: <4152@ico.ISC.COM>
Date: 21 Apr 88 15:30:07 GMT
References: <201@aragorn.UUCP>
Reply-To: dougm@ico.UUCP (Doug McCallum)
Organization: Interactive Systems Corp., Boulder CO
Lines: 15
Keywords: GNU emacs 80386

In article <201@aragorn.UUCP> jdh@aragorn.UUCP (jim harriger) writes:
>

>	1) frequently, when doing filename completion in the minibuf, emacs
>		will freak-out on me.  it repeatedly prints "Modification-flag cleared"

Don't know about this one, but it may be related to the next one.

>	2) if i do a lot of filename completion operations that require emacs to
>		open a directory and print me a list of the possible filenames,

You are probably useing the V.3 opendir/readdir/closedir calls with
the GNU malloc routines.  This will cause the symptoms of your second
problem.  closedir does a free on the data structure BEFORE it closes
the file descriptor.  The GNU malloc scribbles on the file descriptor
field during the free.  The close never happens.