Problems with Xrn 6-14 and X386 and SVR4

[Robert W. Withrow]

I am having two problems with Xrn 6-14, X386 (T. Roell's X for 386s),
and SVR4 (Intel).  If anyone can help, please send mail...

1) I get a Signal 11 (SEGV) sometime after clicking the ``send''
button when I post an article with the ``xrn.editorCommand'' resource
set to execute my favorite editor.  I have XRN configured to use INEWS
to post articles.  The article gets posted correctly.  I get the
``article posted'' notifier also.

By groping around with the debugger I discovered that this seems to be
related to receiving the SIGCHLD signal from the completing INEWS
command.  If I `c' rather than `C' from that signal (using SDB, thus
suppressing that signal from XRN's point of view) everything works
correctly: I *don't* get the SEGV.  I noticed that the INEWS is exec'd
from code executed by the signal handler routine for the SIGCHLD
signal received by the just completed editor command.  Could this be
causing the problem?

2) If I instead use the builtin editor dialog (instead of using the
``xrn.editorCommand'' resource) XRN seems to get into a loop causing
the server to gobble memory until it croaks.  This also happens after
clicking the send button (at the bottom of the editor dialog).  I get
the ``article'' posted notifier for this also.  I havn't yet figured
out where it is getting into this state.
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