[l2h] No such luck with "ndbm store returned -1, errno 22,key "" at... "

[Robert Williams]

Who is controlling the source now?   Could we get
this patch implemented in the distsribution as soon as possible?

Julius Smith wrote:

> The error-triggering line in latex2html was
>
>      $global{$key}-- if $making_name;
>
> (line 10583 of latex2html, version 99.2 beta 6 (1.42)).
> I inserted the following 5 lines as a start on debugging:
>
>      # jos 3/14/00:
>      if (!$key) {
>          print STDERR "*** KEY LOST ***'\n";
>          $key = "LOST_KEY";
>      }
>
>      $global{$key}-- if $making_name;
>      ...
>
> I was hoping to fight past the crash and take a look at the output for
> clues to the problem.  To my surprise, the problem seemed to just go
> away!  ...Perhaps the Perl distributed with RH Linux 6.1 crashes on null hash
> keys,
> while earlier releases did not?  In any case, the above insert seems to
> functionar as a workaround.  Perhaps the fix should really be
>
>     $global{$key}-- if ($key && $making_name);
>

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