Messages in this thread | | | From | Alex Kiernan <> | Subject | Re: buffer/swapping in pre-patch-2.0.31-2 + the 17th July patch | Date | 22 Jul 1997 08:04:13 GMT |
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Bill Hawes <whawes@star.net> wrote: [...] >Also, your amended patch leaves out a much more important change pointed >out by Mark Hemment -- after the call to try_to_free_buffer in >find_candidate, there needs to be a test
> if (!bh) > break;
>This code is in the 2.1.xx tree (and I thought it was already in 2.0.30, >but overlooked it.) The absence of the above test is one of the causes >of oopses in 2.0.30 ... please make sure it gets in!
That one's already in pre-patch-2.0.31-2, your other change I've just added and just started the whole thing compiling...
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