SegV's - 5.0.14D4 - Suse Enterprise Server 9 on Intel.

[Kenneth Brody]

Quoting Jerry Rains (Thu, 13 Oct 2005 17:01:31 -0400):
[...]
> 2) We have an imput process table that will get a SegV every few days.
> When this happens noone can use the file.  ? from dpromenu can't enter
> the file.  Users already in the file can't exit from the IUA menu and
> have to ctrl-\ to get out.  Once ctrl-\ is done 'ps -ef | grep filename
> will find the defunct process.  Killing that process returns everything
> to normal.  Early on I tried rebuilding the freechain, renaming and
> copying the filePro file back and none of that helped.

I'm not sure how you can kill a defunct process, as a defunct process
is already dead.

> 3) I was working with a new input process table and got a SegV when I
> tried to write to a lookup() field when the lookup wasn't open.  I think
> I had hit the end of the file, but I can't remember and I didn't save
> the process table at the time and I can no longer duplicate it.
>
> I received an email from fPtech telling me that they had duplicated the
> problem.  I'm not sure if it is one or all.  They are to let me know
> when I can test.  I figured if anyone else is having these kind of
> problems it would be nice if you would contact fpsupport to help in the
> testing of this problem.

The problem that was duplicated was #3:

    lookup file = ...
    close file
    write file

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