Re: Bus Error

From: George Greer (greerga@circlemud.org)
Date: 10/14/99


On Thu, 14 Oct 1999, Ryan LeGros wrote:

>We are running Circle30bpl16 with OasisOLC v2.0 and DG PL 7a handpatched
>into the source on a solaris box. Shortly after finishing the patching, We
>attempted to run make. When make finishes compiling and attempts to copy the
>new circle binary over the old circle binary, the MUD crashes and dumps
>core.

Of course it does.  You just truncated a running program.  Use 'mv' instead
of 'cp' and you'll be ok.

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