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                               I hate Heisenbugs
                                        
I noticed some odd behavior with mod_blog [1] today. When I make editing
changes to entries (mostly spelling corrections) I usually regenerate the
static pages (the main page, the various feeds) by hand with the following
command:

> % ./boston.cgi --config boston.cnf --regen
> 

But today I kept getting the dreaded “Segmentation fault (core dumped)”
error. It's always worked before, and the timestamp on the executable was
March 13^th, so it's not like I made any recent changes to the program.

But, even odder, if I run:

> % ./boston.cgi --config ./boston.cnf --regen
> 

it runs without a hitch. Specify the config file without the leading “./” and
the program crashes.

And now, fifteen minutes later, I can't reproduce the issue.

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarg!

[1] https://boston.conman.org/about/

Email Sean Conner at sean@conman.org

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