Re: [Source][Newbie] : Some questions ...

From: Robert Sinland (rsinland@ERSKINE.POLARISTEL.NET)
Date: 07/12/97


Indi wrote:
>
> Yohay Etsion wrote:
>
> >
> > 2) Is there a working patch of OasisOLC ANYWHERE ?
> > It patches and compiles perfectly on my system ,
> > but any saving of the data online crashes the
> > whole system , and I know many users suffer from
> > the same problem.
>
> Not that I have seen. There is a patch which fixes some bugs. But the
> way we fixed the medit new bug is by causing a massive memory leak..
> thisa is not recomended. .  as the memory leak is cauing its own set of
  If you are talking about commenting out the free(blah) stuff in
medit.c then you are wrong.
All it takes is an update to the newer C libs out there.  I was on both
sides if this fence for awhile. what worked fine on my local system
would crash on the server system.  The server made the upgrade, now all
is well, with NO mem leaks due to medit.c anyway :)  Now you may be
right about the other stuff, I couldn't say one way or the other...
RS


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