On Sun, 27 Jun 2004, Fred Wright wrote:

> Did the "died" part include using a bad pointer?  If not, it wouldn't
> explain the SIGSEGV.

no it didnt. the termination was a clean one, triggered by a alarm set for
a read timeout. it still doesnt explain the SIGSEV. and other than one
incident, no one's been able to reproduce that yet, iianm,

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