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From: Tom Samplonius <tom@uniserve.com>
To: Robert Shady <rls@kilroy.id.net>
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Subject: Re: Problems with 2.0.5-RELEASE
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On Fri, 16 Jun 1995, Robert Shady wrote:

> 2) I have a MUD (LP-Mud Game Driver) that is ran on the 2.0.5 machine.  It
>    dies rather often under 2.0.5-RELEASE with SIGFAULT or IOT Trap errors.
>    This same game, on the same machine, running 1.1.5.1 w/patches would
>    run for 15-20 days before upgrading to 2.0.5, now it runs anywhere from
>    a couple minutes to 4 hours.

  This could be a porting problem.  FreeBSD 2.x uses long 64 bit file 
offsets now.  I remember that wu-ftpd used to crash all the time on 2.0 
until a sprintf() call that assumed a 32bit value was fixed.

Tom