Re: CVS commit: src/usr.bin/vi/common

[Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>]

On Sun, Apr 20, 2003 at 11:23:16PM +0200, Aymeric Vincent wrote:
> 
>         Hi,
> 
> Thank you for doing this. I'd like to point you at PR 14902
> http://www.netbsd.org/cgi-bin/query-pr-single.pl?number=14902
> 
> I assigned it to me because I think the real problem is in DB writing
> junk files, and I thought I would look at it on a "long term" basis.
> If your fix prevents vi from crashing with the example file provided
> in the PR, please consider assigning the PR to you and/or changing its
> state.
> 
> As far as updating nvi is concerned, the current goal is to wait for a
> nvi > 1.81.5 because the new version will likely break the compat
> layer I wrote for nvi 1.81.x to enable it to use DB1 instead of DB3.
> Note that since the imported nvi will still use our libdb, I'm afraid
> the core of the problem will remain.

I, too, believe there's a problem with our libdb. I tried to track down
a bug in rpc.statd (wich sometimes output things like
Apr 18 15:26:29 disco rpc.statd: Failed to contact host <junk comming out
of /etc/hosts>
>From what I've seen this junk comes out of libdb (rpc.statd uses libdb
to maintain its persistant state).

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>
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