Subj : Posting a message with messagebase open
To   : Nightfox
From : Digital Man
Date : Wed Jul 15 2015 09:39 pm

  Re: Posting a message with messagebase open
  By: Nightfox to Digital Man on Wed Jul 15 2015 08:08 pm

 >   Re: Posting a message with messagebase open
 >   By: Digital Man to Nightfox on Wed Jul 15 2015 16:46:12
 >
 >  > DM>> I just committed an additional file stream flush to the SMB "get
 >  > DM>> status"  function (in src/smblib). Please try this and if that
 >  > DM>> doesn't fix it,  provide more details or better yet, a small
 >  > DM>> script to reproduce the  problem (e.g. using jsexec).
 >
 >  DM> I hadn't actually commited the flush call yet. I just did. Please try
 >  DM> again.
 >
 > I updated my Synchronet build on my Linux test system, and that seems to
 > have fixed the issue I was seeing.

Okay, good. There will probably be other flush-related commits to smblib since 
this highlights an issue with stale read-data that I was not aware of.

This does not explain any crashes or unintended program exits you were seeing.

                                            digital man

Synchronet "Real Fact" #57:
The last version of Synchronet to run on MS-DOS and OS/2 was v2.30c (1999).
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