Re: [Nmh-workers] colorized/highlighted scan output?

[Lyndon Nerenberg]

On 2012-11-05, at 18:23 PM, Ken Hornstein wrote:

> I _believe_ that if you turn color/hilighting on/off on every line, it
> should be okay, because each line is it's own write(2) call.  But I put
> this under "you turn on color/hilighting, you should know how to deal
> when it breaks".

You can take a memory error in the middle of the I/O operation (typically 
caused by hardware errors in RAM or its drivers).