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From: David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM>
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Date: Wed, 08 May 1996 19:34:27 -0700
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>
>Ive noticed that in my new sup of -stable that the pine application has a 
>tendency to runaway and cause the following run away process:
>
>5388 lucid    105    4  1232K 1452K run   365:17 96.02% 96.02% pine
>
>I know its happens in any unix but its happening with increased frequency 
>in -stable from my -release system.
> Not a major thing I was just curious if anyone could explain why.
>Im more curious than anything. And if there was a way to fix it, a patch 
>or something?

   It's only a coincidence that it is happening more frequently under -stable.
This bug in pine is believed to be caused by improper handling of the tty
after it is abnormally closed (not handling the EOF on reads), but as far as
I'm aware, noone has yet to actually prove this to be true.

-DG

David Greenman
Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project