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<HR><H2>Re: [COLD] Re: Crashes</H2>
<H3>daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Wed Jun  5 03:33:11 1996
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From: root@thelbane.brisnet.org.au (Dancer)
To: silovic@srce.hr (Miroslav Silovic)
Date: Wed, 5 Jun 1996 17:17:30 +1000 (AEST)
Cc: coldstuff@cold.org
In-Reply-To: &lt;199606042337.BAA21300@regoc.srce.hr&gt; from "Miroslav Silovic" at Jun 5, 96 01:37:40 am

Since patching the server to p6, I've been getting fairly frequent
crashes.
I've got minimal postmortem info, but it seems that strdup() is being
passed a NULL pointer fairly often. Anyone else getting this?


&gt; 
&gt; 
&gt; I traced a bit through the program. I discovered the following:
&gt; 
&gt; First, my telnet sends ^C in character mode instead of the line mode, so
&gt; ^C sequence it interpreted immediately.
&gt; 
&gt; Secondly, connection_read got only garbage from the connection (the
&gt; sequence it actually read was 6, 255, 254, 255, 253, 6). This could be a
&gt; telnet bug.
&gt; 
&gt; Thirdly, this is the only situation when core gets a line that is not
&gt; terminated by CR/LF. I'm not sure this has been tested in any way.
&gt; 
&gt; Fourth, `[65,10,3].to_strings() =&gt; ["a",`[3]]
&gt; (can we handle buffers in these lists? Especially if it terminates by a
&gt; buffer?)
&gt; 
&gt; And lastly, when I kill my telnet, I get neatly disconnected, and my
&gt; connection object destroyed. So I don't think that is the problem.
&gt; 
&gt; 	Miro
&gt; 
&gt; 

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