Re: heap corruption in du

[Paul Eggert]

Mikulas Patocka <address@hidden> writes:

>>  ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-5.90.tar.bz2
>
> BTW. How stable are alpha versions of GNU software from this server?
> Do you think they are OK for a production multiuser machine?

That depends on what you mean by "production", but I have installed
5.90 on a departmental Solaris cluster with hundreds of accounts and
dozens of users regularly logged in.

> Shouldn't new regular non-alpha version be made for these kind of
> fixes?

If resources were unlimited, yes.