Re: 0.9.9 release soon?

Hello John,

"John E. Davis" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Peter J Ross <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Apart from the documentation being in need of some work (which would be a 
>> problem for 1.0 or even 0.10, but surely not for 0.9.9), is there anything 
>> preventing a 0.9.9 release soon, or even today?
>
> Also, what about slrnpull?  I have not used nor tested it since I took
> over from Thomas.  I get the feeling that many people have moved on to
> using leafnode.  For these reasons, I feel that slrnpull should not be
> included in the 0.9.9 release.

Please include it, but maybe drop support for it and don't build it by
default, i.e. leave it as it is, don't delete the code.

I've got a double free corruption

*** glibc detected *** /home/joerg/git/debian/slrn/src/objs/slrnpull: free(): invalid pointer: 0x10030b8d ***
======= Backtrace: =========
/lib/libc.so.6[0xfdc8378]
/lib/libc.so.6(cfree+0xc8)[0xfdca7f8]
/lib/libslang.so.2(SLfree+0x2c)[0xff7396c]
/home/joerg/git/debian/slrn/src/objs/slrnpull[0x1000c408]
/home/joerg/git/debian/slrn/src/objs/slrnpull[0x1000a090]
/home/joerg/git/debian/slrn/src/objs/slrnpull[0x1000aa64]
/lib/libc.so.6[0xfd67b10]
/lib/libc.so.6[0xfd67cd0]

(gdb) bt
#0  0x0fd7feec in raise () from /lib/libc.so.6
#1  0x0fd81b5c in abort () from /lib/libc.so.6
#2  0x0fdc0534 in __libc_message () from /lib/libc.so.6
#3  0x0fdc8378 in malloc_printerr () from /lib/libc.so.6
#4  0x0fdca7f8 in free () from /lib/libc.so.6
#5  0x0ff7396c in SLfree () from /lib/libslang.so.2
#6  0x1000c408 in slrn_free (s=0x0) at /home/joerg/git/debian/slrn/src/strutil.c:308
#7  0x1000a090 in get_articles (s=0x10030b30, g=0x1003f0c8, numbers=0xbfd2b404, num=10)
    at /home/joerg/git/debian/slrn/src/slrnpull.c:1300
#8  0x1000aa64 in main (argc=<value optimized out>, argv=<value optimized out>)
    at /home/joerg/git/debian/slrn/src/slrnpull.c:1719

Regards, Jörg.
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