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Date:      Mon, 4 Mar 1996 10:43:32 -0700 (MST)
From:      Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
To:        peter@jhome.DIALix.COM (Peter Wemm)
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Netscape an not right scroller?
Message-ID:  <199603041743.KAA06168@phaeton.artisoft.com>
In-Reply-To: <peter.825952231@jhome.DIALix.COM> from "Peter Wemm" at Mar 4, 96 03:10:31 pm

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> >From other discussions, this seems to be a difference in the atomicity
> >of writes on POSIX domain (UNIX domain) sockets between BSD and Linux.

[ ... actually, these other discussions were with Peter ... ]

> Incidently, this is fixed in -current.  I think the problem was something
> to do with signal masking, but I am not certain.  I am tempted to back out
> all my changes one at a time on my copy and see which one was the critical
> fix.

I had initially argued that it was the select() restart after SIGALARM
for setitimer(), but Peter argued me out of it!

Never mind -- mark it as "fixed in -current".  8-).


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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