Re: [help!] medit crashing the MUD

From: Serapi (roland@INTERPATH.COM)
Date: 09/04/97


George wrote:
>
> On Thu, 4 Sep 1997, Serapi wrote:
>
> >> I'm sorry.  I meant when i save, ya know 's' after do you wish to save
> >this mob internally.  I'm really boggled here, I'd hate to have to start
> >from scratch again.
>
> Technically you should put 'y' but anyway... the 'medit save' problem has
> been fixed for Linux machines (read: me) but it seems that other systems
> (like Solaris) still crash on the code.  I'm kind of stuck as I don't have
> Solaris to work on but I'll stick the code on an AIX machine (the only
> other non-linux account I have) and see what happens there.
>
> (Admin there gave me a 5 meg quota so I stick everything in /tmp.) :)
>
> If you really *must* run it, comment out the two free() statements in
> medit_save_internally() but note that you'll be leaking some memory.
> (or define I_CRASH in my latest test patch #11)
> It is a linux machine tho?  Yah, 'y', sorry, hectic night (as you could
guess).  Which patch contains the bugfix for this?


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