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Re: Bug in pause..?
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lugnet.general
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Sat, 5 Dec 1998 20:48:05 GMT
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On Sat, 5 Dec 1998 21:37:16 GMT, lehman@javanet.com (Todd Lehman)
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> Any word that ends in 'er' is currently gacking it -- so if you search for
> "Galaxy Explorer" or "Pooper Scooper" it'll gack too. It's a bug in some
> low-level DB stuff that's going away soon. (I suspect a buffer is
> overflowing somewhere because 'er' is wicked common and it has a huge
> reverse-index list. I saw it gack on another large list once and it scared
> me enough to make plans to replace that chunk of code with something more
> reliable.)
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> Anyway, I'm sorry that the search feature is broken and I'll let you know as
> soon as it's fixed.
No problem. Bugs happen.
I am just naturally a very, _very_ curious person, and when that
happened, well, I got very curious as to what was causing it. And I
figured I'd let you know in case you didn't know yet. You could, of
course, just kludge it to avoid -er endings...
Jasper.
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| (...) Okie dokie, searches ending in "er" are no longer broken. I rewrote the character trigraph indexer...it's a bit simpler and even a bit faster. I'm still not truly sure why the script was getting a segmentation fault on large stored lists in (...) (28 years ago, 15-Jan-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.general)
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| (...) Any word that ends in 'er' is currently gacking it -- so if you search for "Galaxy Explorer" or "Pooper Scooper" it'll gack too. It's a bug in some low-level DB stuff that's going away soon. (I suspect a buffer is overflowing somewhere because (...) (28 years ago, 5-Dec-98, to lugnet.general)
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