Devilish bug in RN when out of space?

[Larry Wall]

In article <670 at stcns3.stc.oz> dave at stcns3.stc.oz (Dave Horsfall) writes:
: Fine.  The annoying thing is, both my .newsrc and .oldnewsrc got linked
: together (!!!), and truncated (!!!).  This is reasonably repeatable.
: 
: Known bug, Larry?  Known fix, anyone?

Yeah, known bug.  One of these years I might get bit hard enough by it to
fix it, but I haven't yet.  If anyone has a patch for it, feel free to
post it.  My next "patch" to rn will be a new version.

Larry