Re: 'make menuconfig' crash in 2.2.0-pre*

Riley Williams (rhw@bigfoot.com)
Mon, 4 Jan 1999 10:58:01 +0000 (GMT)


Hi Luca.

>> OK all, problem solved - the reason why I wasn't experiencing the
>> same problem is because it was sensitive to screen length - I
>> normally run with an 80x50 text screen - and only occurs when one
>> scrolled a screen BEFORE pressing the space bar. Since none of the
>> existing menus are long enough for this situation to occur on a 50
>> line screen, I was unable to replicate it...

> The problem was just SOLVED for me on Sun 3 Jan 1999 03:18:25
> thanks to Michael Elizabeth Chastain <mec@shout.net> that isolate
> the bug and post the patch very quickly into kml.

We're presumably NOT talking about the same probblem, namely that I
was unable to replicate the problem everybody else was having, thus
prompting both Michael and myself to suspect that there was another
bug in the Menuconfig code that he hadn't noticed...

Best wishes from Riley.

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