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- From: hooft@fys.ruu.nl (Rob Hooft)
- Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: Linux 0.98 pl5
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.083824.29395@fys.ruu.nl>
- Organization: Physics Department, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands
- References: <1992Nov15.220138.5434@klaava.Helsinki.FI> <JEM.92Nov16213559@lk-hp-6.hut.fi>
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 08:38:24 GMT
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- In <JEM.92Nov16213559@lk-hp-6.hut.fi> jem@snakemail.hut.fi (Johan Myreen) writes:
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- >In article <1992Nov15.220138.5434@klaava.Helsinki.FI> torvalds@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Linus Torvalds) writes:
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- >>NOTE! READ THIS AND PONDER:
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- >>pl5 now checks against writing to the text segment. Older binaries
- >>which used the original estdio library (used with the earliest gcc
- >>versions) are liable to break: not that there should be many of these
- >>binaries around. So if you get "Segmentation fault (core dumped)" on
- >>binaries you know used to work, this is the likely cause.
-
- >Before the "bug reports" start coming in...
-
- tcsh? It seems to be my primary problem. Everything else I tried still
- works (I actually recompiled tcsh under .98.5), but tcsh doesn't. I'm
- glad that I have '/etc/ctrlaltdel soft' in my /etc/rc.local. Anybody
- else have this problem too, or is it just my own compiled version?
- --
- Rob W.W. Hooft, Department of crystal and structural chemistry
- Bijvoet Center for Biomolecular Research, University of Utrecht
- The Netherlands ===== hooft@chem.ruu.nl (hooft@hutruu54.bitnet)
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