TID: Mystic BBS 1.12 A47   
   MSGID: 3:770/100 9f2e8e5d   
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   On 20 Jan 2022 at 09:12a, mark lewis pondered and said...   
       
    ml> earlier i had remove the "-C" to test the automatic reload that the FAQ   
    ml> seems to indicate is done with binkd v1.xx... i've just put it back and   
    ml> run a short but similar test to your's using touch on my main   
    ml> configuration file as well as each of the various included files... in   
    ml> every case, binkd did detect the timestamp updates and said it reloaded   
    ml> the configure for both server and client instances... there was no   
    ml> crash...   
    ml>    
    ml> ok, so that works... let's try changing some content...   
      
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    ml> that'll add one byte and remove some data when binkd processes the   
    ml> contents... damn! again no crash... remove the content so that domain   
    ml> line is valid again and no crash... WTAF is going on??   
      
   Based on your experiments, I imagine what's going on is   
   a serialization failure when accessing heap-allocated   
   memory in a multi-threaded context.  You're not seeing   
   crashes because the crashes are non-deterministic.   
      
   These sort of annoying "heisenbugs" are the worst.  But   
   fortunately there are tools that can help out.  Perhaps   
   compile with something like TSAN enabled and try running   
   that way?   
      
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