Massive checkin but still no memory corruption fix

Chris Faylor cgf@cygnus.com
Mon Jun 21 21:11:00 GMT 1999


On Tue, Jun 22, 1999 at 12:10:57AM -0400, cgf wrote:
>I made a lot of changes that will be reflected in the recent snapshot but
>I am still seeing occasional memory corruption.  It is really sporadic
>and difficult to track down.
>
>This is what I've fixed:
>1) a long standing "wait_subproc: wait failed, nchildren..." error.
>2) stopped looping if there's an error on exit.
>3) argument passing in #! scripts (e.g. #!/bin/sh -x)
>4) don't attempt to use ntsec on drives which do not support it.
>5) run strace program at higher priority for slight speed improvement.

6) Revert scrolling code to (almost) old behavior.  The April 17 changes
   just caused too many problems.  I think that scroll regions are broken
   again, now, if anyone cares.

cgf


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