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Article #2040Re: problems using mh-e.el
From: Tony Lill
Date: Wed, 03 Jun 1992 13:53
Date: Wed, 03 Jun 1992 13:53
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Well, I've just sussed out the problem. The mh commands were getting a SIGPIPE in gethostbyname() (called from LocalName) when the mh commands were the process group leader and DNS was not configured and the NONAMESERVER environment variable was not set. whew! So it looks like a rather obtuse bug in my networking libraries. For those of you not familiar with SVR4 networking, the gethostent routines check the value of the NONAMESERVER environment variable to determine whether or not to try to find a name server. Normally, if you don't have it set, and don't have DNS, it just times out after 30 seconds and looks in the hosts file. -- Tony Lill, ajlill@riipsdev.Waterloo.NCR.COM President, A. J. Lill Consultants (519) 650 0660 539 Grand Valley Dr., Cambridge, Ont. (519) 653 9732 presently at E&M Waterloo, NCR Canada Ltd. (519) 884 1710 x624 voice plus 643 1624 "Welcome to All Things UNIX, where if it's not UNIX, it's CRAP!"
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fe14c,7dc08be26779bb98,start X-Google-Attributes: gidfe14c,public X-Google-Thread: fb2f1,877a4e06e131212a X-Google-Attributes: gidfb2f1,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1992-06-04 00:36:34 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!haven.umd.edu!purdue!bu.edu!ai-lab!ai.mit.edu!gnulists From: ajlill@riipsdev.riipsdev.waterloo.ncr.com (Tony Lill) Newsgroups: comp.mail.mh,gnu.emacs.bug Subject: Re: problems using mh-e.el Message-ID: <AJLILL.92Jun3145315@riipsdev.riipsdev.Waterloo.NCR.Com> Date: 3 Jun 92 13:53:15 GMT Followup-To: comp.mail.mh,gnu.emacs.bug Organization: NCR Canada Ltd., Waterloo, Ont. Lines: 19 Approved: info-gnu@prep.ai.mit.edu