Subject: Pine 3.92 Crashes in Compose

From: Jago <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 11 Apr 1996 16:48:20 -0400

This bug seems to only happen after we install a new version.  It did 
this with 3.91 as well.  At some point, Pine would suddenly crash while 
you're composing a letter with an "Abort Signal" and made a core dump.
The first way this happened as right after I typed in the subject.  After 
I hit Return and went into the editing area, the program crashed.  The 
second way is that I hit Ctrl-C to cancel the message.  Instead of Pine 
confirming this, the program crashed.  It did this for about an hour, 
then everything was fine.  I'm sending this post with 3.92 now, so things 
are back to normal.

My questions is what causes this to happen?  During the time of the 
crash, Elm was working fine.  Is this a network problem?  As anyone else 
run into this?  We're running Linux on a Sun Sparc.  Thanks!

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From: [email-masked] (Jamie Royer)
Date: 15 Apr 96 17:38:24 PDT

Jago <[email-masked]> writes:
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>you're composing a letter with an "Abort Signal" and made a core dump.
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>run into this?  We're running Linux on a Sun Sparc.  Thanks!

It happened on our DG/UX machine, but it would crash when trying to
reply to a message.  To fix it I changed the code in two places.

In your case the "bug" seems to go away, our "bug" is consistent until
patched.

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