Peter Humphrey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Mon, 09 Apr 2007 12:02:47 +0100:
> I suppose what I meant was "the standard version that can be compiled on > a multi-lib system that's mostly 64-bit", rather than a precompiled > version (which is 32-bit). Ahh... That makes more sense. =8^) That the issue seems to be a timing/race condition of some sort is interesting, but would explain why the issue seems so unusual. No /wonder/ you can't find much else on what seemed like it should be a perfectly reproducible bug! Your system just falls in the wrong timing slot, it would seem. =8^( I'm still wondering what the mechanism is, but this is a strange one, all right. You should feel privileged that the fates favored you with something so unusual. =8^) (Yeah, I know, about like those folks with the one in a million birth defect... At least the computer isn't a part of your body you have to live with...) -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman -- [email protected] mailing list
