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From: naddy@mips.inka.de (Christian Weisgerber)
Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2003 17:35:10 +0000 (UTC)
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Subject: Re: NANO core dump on Current
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Tim Aslat <tim@spyderweb.com.au> wrote:

> I don't know if I'm the only one with this problem, but here goes.  
> I use Nano (/usr/ports/editors/nano) as my primary text editor, however
> Iv'e noticed that any time I use -CURRENT (on my notebook) it core dumps
> when saving a file.

This is due to a bug in nano and -CURRENT running by default with
malloc option R, which triggers the bug.

When I looked, I didn't understand the code well enough to provide
a fix, and I have been unable to reach the upstream maintainer by
e-mail.

-- 
Christian "naddy" Weisgerber                          naddy@mips.inka.de