[CUWiN-Dev] dangling pointers finally secured

[David Young]

On Wed, Dec 28, 2005 at 03:19:58PM -0600, Bill Comisky wrote:
> On Tue, 27 Dec 2005, Bill Comisky wrote:
> 
> >On Mon, 19 Dec 2005, David Young wrote:
> >
> >> In the last few days I have found & fixed bugs involving dangling 
> >> pointers
> >> that I believe were responsible for 99% of hslsd crashes.
> >
> >Just checked the status of how r3754 + 19-Dec snapshot is doing on our 
> >Lawndale network.  Neither of our tower gateways has been down since the 
> >upgrade (5+ days).  One gateway has 0 /var/core/hslsd.* files (woot!) and 
> >the other had four core files (a vast reduction from previous revs).  I 
> >used the -S -S options to tar up the source/object files, and copied the 
> >core files to here if you want to look:
> >
> >http://flatiron.cntwireless.org/cuwin/r3754/
> 
> Turns out the the other gateway had generated a few core files too, but 
> they had been deleted by a cron job I was using to free space on /mfs. 
> It deleted the core files when it didn't really need to because it was 
> looking at the capacity based on the output of df, which can be misleading 
> because the size of /mfs is now dynamic since switching to tmpfs.

I think I understand what causes some of the coredumps.  I will look at
your dumps in coming days.

Dave

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