Subject: Pine Crashes on Red Hat 5.0

From: Dwight Johnson <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 10 Dec 1997 00:01:57 -0800 (PST)

Red Hat 5.0 is the first production Linux distribution to use
the glibc library with true multithreading.

The version of Pine 3.96 distributed with Red Hat 5.0 has the
problem that when you are in Pico and ispell and exit ispell
it crashes and you have to kill Pine leaving ispell as a zombie
process.

An analogous problem happens when using vi as alternate editor.
Upon exit from vi, Pine crashes leaving vi as a zombie.

The Red Hat distribution of Pine include patches which enable
Pine to compile under glibc. I presume these patches were developed
by Red Hat. I have brought the problem to Red Hat's attention,
but they have not resolved it to date.

Can any of the Pine developers shed light on this problem?

Pine with vi is my main mailreader and I use it exclusively
on Linux.

Dwight Johnson

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From: Dwight Johnson <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 10 Dec 1997 00:18:00 -0800 (PST)

> Upon exit from vi, Pine crashes leaving vi as a zombie.

Sam Trenholme has just posted a fix for this at:

 http://samiam.org/BlackDragon

Dwight

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From: David L Miller <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 19 Dec 1997 17:33:25 -0800 (PST)

DJ> On Wed, 10 Dec 1997, Dwight Johnson wrote:
DJ> 
DJ> > Red Hat 5.0 is the first production Linux distribution to use
DJ> > the glibc library with true multithreading.
DJ> > 
DJ> > The version of Pine 3.96 distributed with Red Hat 5.0 has the
DJ> > problem that when you are in Pico and ispell and exit ispell
DJ> > it crashes and you have to kill Pine leaving ispell as a zombie
DJ> > process.
DJ> > 
DJ> > An analogous problem happens when using vi as alternate editor.
DJ> > Upon exit from vi, Pine crashes leaving vi as a zombie.
DJ> 
DJ> Sam Trenholme has just posted a fix for this at:
DJ> 
DJ>  http://samiam.org/BlackDragon
DJ> 

Could you (or anyone else) send a copy of the patches to
[email-masked]?  I tried downloading the above, but I don't
have anything handy that can read RPM files...