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Subject: Re: Majordomo v1.94: problem with shlock.pl
From: Chan Wilson <cwilson @ slurp . neu . sgi . com>
Date: Wed, 27 Nov 1996 19:08:36 +0100
To: Dave Wolfe <david_wolfe @ risc . sps . mot . com>
Cc: mikhail @ klm . com, majordomo-workers @ greatcircle . com
In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 26 Nov 1996 13:30:42 CST." <199611261930.NAA20490@miaow.risc.sps.mot.com>

> > > The following lines in shlock.pl is trouble:
> > > 
> > > open($FH_name, ">> $filename") ||
> > >     &warn("open of temp file $filename failed\n $!");

> > There's a fix for this in the 1.94.1 test patch I posted several days

> There is? I don't see anything in 1.94.1 that effects that. Not in
> shlock.pl anyway. I agree that it's inappropriate to die there, but I
> don't see how it gets out of open_temp without a slew of other warning
> messages. I suspect the fix is to add a 'return undef;' after the
> 'warn' (all within braces, of course).

Mmm, in shlock.pl, I changed the warn to call abort, which exits
cleanly and won't loop.

--Chan


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