gnu emacs 18.54, gnus3.12, gethostbyname

[Jeremy Nussbaum]

In article <JEREMY.89Jul13160834 at lana.prime.com> jeremy at lana.prime.com (Jeremy Nussbaum) writes:

   Summary: gethostbyname problem under gnuemacs 18.53/4 with irix 3.1
   Date: 13 Jul 89 20:08:34 GMT
   Lines: 18
   Xref: cvbnet2 comp.sys.sgi:1051 gnu.emacs:109 comp.emacs:5879

   I just bought up gnu emacs 18.54 (and 18.53) on an sgi 4d workstation 
   under release 3.1 of the sgi os.  I had been using 18.51, compiled
   on an earlier release of the os.  Under 18.51, gnus started up w/o trouble.
   Now, as soon as it tries to connect to the nntp server it gets a
   segmentation violation.  The traceback shows index.index called by
   res_init.res_init called by res_search called by _gethostbyname_named
   called by gethostbyname called by Fopen_network_stream.  I have verified
   that I am still calling gethostbyname with the same valid hostname, and
   that a small program can make the call successfully.  I don't actually
   have the named up and running.  Any ideas on what might be causing the
   segmentation violation, and what I might do to get around the problem?

   Thanks in advance,
   --
   Jeremy Nussbaum (jeremy at jeremy.prime.com, ...!harvard!prmcad!jeremy)
OK, I worked on it some more, and finally figured out that it is the
programmers workbench library that is causing the problem.  I haven't yet
ascertained which routine is being redefined, but I have "successfully"
gotten a three line program to dump core consistenly simply by linking in the
libPW library.  Followups to comp.sys.sgi.
--

Jeremy Nussbaum
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