Re: Fatal error (11). Emacs/ Linux hosed my very long document.

[GreyCloud]

David Kastrup wrote:

> GreyCloud <mist@cumulus.com> writes:
>
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> > Mike Cox wrote:
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> [a lot of bull]
>
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> > In all the years since the 80's have I ever seen emacs or Xemacs
> > ever crash on a Prime, a VAX, or under any version of RedHat Linux,
> > Caldera Linux, or Sun Solaris.
>
>
> Oh, I have. 

On a Prime computer or a VAX?

I never did.

We all know that there are crap hardware out there.
Knowing Mike Cox, he probably owns a cheap Dell.

Most of these failures are bound to be hardware problems or an o/s 
mis-match.  I've seen these problems before.

> And the message he quoted was quite definitely from
> XEmacs (of course, you could easily trigger it by sending signal 11 to
> an idle XEmacs, which I would not want to rule out as a possibility:
> the Lisp backtrace certainly is from a corner of XEmacs that has
> nothing to do with editing and little chances of core dumps).

Maybe he sent a sig 11 to the o/s.

Consider Cox a troll.

> > This folks is a pure outright lie and a troll.
>
>
> Obviously.  But not because he claimed Emacs/XEmacs can crash.  They
> certainly can, in particular if you are using developer versions or
> playing around with new functionality heavily.  The consequences
> rarely are serious: after all, autosave files exist.

Which again makes Mike Cox a troll.

The next question is:  does he troll for money.


> > It just goes to show you how low some trolls will go to FUD the Open
> > Source community.
>
>
> As if cola-baiting was an uncommon occurence.  I think he does it more
> for fun than any deeper cause.

Mostly the case.  Simon cooke e-mailed me and said he really loved to 
troll COLA.  You may have remembered him.

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