Re: 5250 Server Patch

[Mike Madore <mmadore@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Scott,

I've put some fixes into CVS.  I no longer seg faults on UnixWare,
although it hangs on me before I get a signon screen.  Let me know if it
helps at all.  I'll keep looking at it either today or tommorrow.

Mike



On Tue, 16 May 2000, Mike Madore wrote:

> I did a little investigating.  I applied the server patches to 0.15.7
> (which is what they were written for) and everything works fine on
> UnixWare 7.  I did find that the there are at least a couple of instances
> where the configuration object field is not getting initialized to
> NULL.  Obviously this is OK on Linux, but on UnixWare the operating system
> apparently doesn't take care of this for you.  I'm going to give fixing it
> a shot, but I'm not totally sure what some of the configuration code is
> supposed to do.
> 
> Mike
> 
> 
> > 
> > Okay, I did a "rm -rf tn5250/"  and checked out the whole thing from
> > scratch.   I'm still having the same problem.  
> > 
> > It says that This->ref is in an invalid area of memory.  
> > 
> > I'm running this on FreeBSD.    One of the issues that we've run into on
> > this project in the past is that Linux will often initialize things to
> > zero or null, and FreeBSD assumes that you'll do the initializing.
> > 
> > If I have a chance, I'll try this on Linux, and see if it works... 
> > 
> > I guess, the problem doesn't necessarily have to be a result of the
> > server changes that you added to CVS, it may be a result of another
> > change that went into CVS...   I hadn't updated in two or three days prior
> > to trying this out.
> > 
> > But either way, I'd really like to see it be fixed :)  (Since I can't
> > currently run it at all)

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