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From: David Moore <dmoore@ucsd.edu>
Date: 27 Mar 1997 12:59:15 -0800
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sperber@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de (Michael Sperber [Mr. Preprocessor]) writes:

> Yeah, it's become fashionable to blame EFS ...

It's XEmacs fault.  Just EFS tickles the bugs.

> Martin> xemacs -q
> Martin> ;; 1 remote efs access (just to auto-load efs)
> Martin> ;; kill all buffers
> Martin> M-x gnus
> Martin> after autoloading a while ... **boing** !
> 
> This really looks like a GCPRO problem, possibly the one David Moore
> fixed for 19.15?

I don't think I got to checking Fload_internal yet.  Although, maybe one
of the lower level cleanups helped.  When the file handler code was
added it caused gc protection issues in at least 100 functions, and they
take a fairly significant amount of time to check through.


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