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In <1993Jan7.115948.14710@isa.de> vogt@isa.de (Gerald Vogt) writes:
>Hi. All those who upgraded elm to patchlevel 20 and get a Segment
>Violation, Bus Error or similar signal when leaving elm with 'x' may
>apply the following patch to the file src/exitprog.c. Everything
>should work afterwards. But be aware: DON'T FORGET TO REMOVE THE PATCH
>AGAIN BEFORE YOU APPLY THE NEXT OFFICIAL PATCHES!!!

If you have stock elm 2.4PL20 and you can use x without some form of
segment violation/bus error after having changed the status of a
message (ie read an unread one or deleted a message), then I'd be a
touch worried.

Whats happening is that an unitialised pointer is being passed to a
sprintf type function.  On my system that pointer is auto intialised
to zero, but on other systems you will be tramping over some random
data space.  Fortunately since its the last thing you do before
shutting down you will probably get away with it!

I passed a patch to Syd a couple of days ago.  I expect him to issue
a blessed patch fairly soon (it is a real bug so needs fixing fairly
fast).

	Nigel.

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