Date: Fri, 03 Oct 2003 16:52:08 +1000 From: Stephen McKay <smckay@internode.on.net> To: Forrest Aldrich <forrie@forrie.com> Cc: Stephen McKay <smckay@internode.on.net> Subject: Re: Weird error when using VI on FreeBSD-4.x Message-ID: <200310030652.h936q8JW009698@dungeon.home> In-Reply-To: <6.0.0.22.2.20030922161741.01bcd6a0@192.168.1.1> from Forrest Aldrich at "Mon, 22 Sep 2003 20:19:11 %2B0000" References: <6.0.0.22.2.20030922161741.01bcd6a0@192.168.1.1>
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On Monday, 22nd September 2003, Forrest Aldrich wrote: >I'm getting this error from time-to-time when using VI under >FreeBSD_4.9-prerelease: > >Error: input: Resource temporarily unavailable > >Basically, VI just exits/crashes (no core dump). > >The load average is pretty low: > >4:18PM up 10 days, 23:42, 4 users, load averages: 0.13, 0.21, 0.21 > >And I don't seem to have any other problems with the system. > >Wondering what this might be, or if it's a known problem, etc. It's sort-of known. It's been around for a while now, but nobody knows how to fix it. I've seen it since I upgraded to 4.8 (from 4.5). As far as I can tell, *sometimes* a read from a pty returns EAGAIN when it shouldn't. This has happened to me with /bin/cat of stdin (which was a pty in xterm), so it's nothing to do with VI as such. Stephen.
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