Re: [ERROR]Dinamic Boards

From: Patrick J. Dughi (dughi@IMAXX.NET)
Date: 12/12/97


> On 12/12/97 2:35 PM, Patrick J. Dughi (dughi@IMAXX.NET) stated:
>
> >        Ack. Haven't had that problem before, but since its more than one
> >person, it must be indicitive of a more global problem.  Just curious -
> >what is your operating system. I'm not sure if the dirent() functions are
> >quite the same across the board.
>
> Linux.
>
> I solved the problem by placing default values incase of no title or no
> content, which was what I assume was causing the problem (hasn't crashed
> in 12 hours since with heavy board usage, and this was a pretty steady
> crash causer when people used the boards).  Problem with tracking it down
> was the core file would get overridden when it re-crashed trying to read
> and sort an empty board.
>
> Also noticed the patch lacks catching people who fail to use a topic.
>

        This is a problem. I didn't see it earlier because I have a
slightly different version of the boards than that which I released.  I'll
try to fix this.  Something I'm surprised that no one found was that I
never actually wrote a function to clear out the hashed data lines after a
message was removed. Really, its pretty simple, but *shrug*.  Guess this
will be in v2.1 or something of the sort. :)

                                                PjD


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