From: Rob Hooft (hooft@fys.ruu.nl)
Date: 11/17/92


From: hooft@fys.ruu.nl (Rob Hooft)
Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: Linux 0.98 pl5
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 08:38:24 GMT

In <JEM.92Nov16213559@lk-hp-6.hut.fi> jem@snakemail.hut.fi (Johan Myreen) writes:

>In article <1992Nov15.220138.5434@klaava.Helsinki.FI> torvalds@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Linus Torvalds) writes:

>>NOTE! READ THIS AND PONDER:

>>pl5 now checks against writing to the text segment. Older binaries
>>which used the original estdio library (used with the earliest gcc
>>versions) are liable to break: not that there should be many of these
>>binaries around. So if you get "Segmentation fault (core dumped)" on
>>binaries you know used to work, this is the likely cause.

>Before the "bug reports" start coming in...

tcsh? It seems to be my primary problem. Everything else I tried still
works (I actually recompiled tcsh under .98.5), but tcsh doesn't. I'm
glad that I have '/etc/ctrlaltdel soft' in my /etc/rc.local. Anybody
else have this problem too, or is it just my own compiled version?

-- 
Rob W.W. Hooft,  Department of crystal and structural chemistry
Bijvoet Center for Biomolecular Research, University of Utrecht
The Netherlands ===== hooft@chem.ruu.nl (hooft@hutruu54.bitnet)