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| author | Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com> | 1996-12-21 10:26:34 +0000 |
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| committer | Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com> | 1996-12-21 10:26:34 +0000 |
| commit | 950350966b07d1f121f4cf50a2704f1a65dc4b38 (patch) | |
| tree | e20caf13502b92cb558945c3b06b75b62813ecc4 /NEWS | |
| parent | b5eac88eceb211ef46470ef2c5e414134c088410 (diff) | |
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Correct a horrible bug.
svn path=/trunk/; revision=670
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1 files changed, 9 insertions, 3 deletions
@@ -10,7 +10,11 @@ Release Notes: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ -fetchmail-2.4 (Sat Dec 21 02:37:58 EST 1996) +fetchmail-2.4 (Sat Dec 21 05:24:44 EST 1996) + +Note: a preliminary version of 2.4 was withdrawn after four hours of +exposure due to horrible lossage apparently triggered by a bug in the +Linux standard IO library. See the comment in socket.c. features -- @@ -26,8 +30,10 @@ bugs -- * Restored compile-time portability to Solaris. -* Force line-buffering on socket streams (Linux apparently defaults to this). - This may fix some hang problems reported under Solaris. +* Initial 2.4 said: "Force line-buffering on socket streams (Linux apparently + defaults to this). This may fix some hang problems reported under Solaris." + Unfortunately this "fix" triggers horrible lossage on long messages and had + to be removed. There are 166 people on the fetchmail-friends list. |