Thanks to the very helpful Gordon Thiesfeld, I now believe I've found
the bug that was causing Hobbit to lock up and die.
It was - of course - a stupid programming error. It's in all of the
Hobbit beta-versions, so it really is quite amazing it hasn't
triggered on any of the systems I run Hobbit on internally.
I'd recommend applying the attached patch to your Hobbit 4.0-beta5
sources, then rebuild and restart Hobbit. I.e. :
Save attached patch to /tmp/post-beta5-loop.patch
cd hobbit-4.0-beta5
patch lib/encoding.c < /tmp/post-beta5-loop.patch
make
make install
Regards,
Henrik
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--- lib/encoding.c 2005/01/16 11:44:18 1.4
+++ lib/encoding.c 2005/01/17 20:54:17
@@ -229,8 +229,8 @@
while (*inp) {
n = strcspn(inp, "\\");
- if ((n > 0) && (inp != outp)) {
- memmove(outp, inp, n);
+ if (n > 0) {
+ if (inp != outp) memmove(outp, inp, n);
inp += n;
outp += n;
}