Date: Thu, 4 Jul 1996 14:54:56 GMT From: James Raynard <fqueries@jraynard.demon.co.uk> To: zach@blizzard.gaffaneys.com Cc: andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Sorting Incoming Mail Message-ID: <199607041454.OAA01258@jraynard.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <87ohlwttpm.fsf@freebsd.gaffaneys.com> (message from Zach Heilig on 04 Jul 1996 01:31:49 -0500)
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>>>>> Zach Heilig <zach@blizzard.gaffaneys.com> writes: [How to read mailing lists with GNUS] > The wierd thing is when I set it up, it wouldn't work no matter how > much I fiddled with it, then for some reason I rebooted, and all of a > sudden, it worked. Odd, isn't it? (I think it has to do with having > the sticky-bit set on the emacs executable, and having just upgraded > from gnus 5.0.4 or something.. it might be modifing the already loaded > core image). The sticky bit is an archaism - it meant "keep this executable in swap when I quit it because I use it a lot and it takes a long time to load". Modern Unices (including of course FreeBSD) ignore this as their virtual memory management is clever enough to work that out without such unsubtle hints. (Not to be confused with the sticky bit on a directory, which means "the files in this directory may only be deleted by their owner" and is still very much in use for world-writeable directories like /tmp). I'd have thought it was probably something like a piece of Lisp code that needed to be re-loaded but wasn't - presumably you tried the obvious things like closing and re-starting Emacs? -- James Raynard, Edinburgh, Scotland james@jraynard.demon.co.uk http://www.freebsd.org/~jraynard/
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