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Date:      Sun, 24 Oct 1999 01:58:46 +0200 (CEST)
From:      Wilko Bulte <wilko@yedi.iaf.nl>
To:        mjacob@feral.com
Cc:        dillon@apollo.backplane.com, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: NOTE NOTE NOTE:Re: does anybody but me (..vgrinds forever...)
Message-ID:  <199910232358.BAA02018@yedi.iaf.nl>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9910231412430.25168-100000@semuta.feral.com> from Matthew Jacob at "Oct 23, 1999  2:31: 8 pm"

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As Matthew Jacob wrote ...
> 
> On Sat, 23 Oct 1999, Matthew Dillon wrote:
> 
> > :It really is vgring hanging on a file:
> > :
> > :vgrind -f < /usr/src/share/doc/papers/kernmalloc/appendix.t > appendix.ms
> > :
> > :A plain vgrind -f on this file also hangs. Anyone have a clue on this?
> > :
> > :This happens for me on an alpha. 
> > :
> > :-matt
> > 
> >     The vgrind command above does not hang on my PIII test box.  It takes
> >     about a second to run.  I tried both an old binary and a new binary of
> >     vgrind.  Both worked.
> > 
> >     I recommend compiling vgrind up w/ full debugging and attaching a 
> >     debugger to it to see what is up.
> 
> 
> Not an executable... but I finally figured it out... Pipes possibly broken
> as set up by csh- csh was an old (Oct 1) csh. Until I updated csh from the
> current build tree, what actually was happening was vfontedpr was piping
> to 'cat -'.... and this was hanging..... Wierd city, but all better now I
> believe... possibly related to the signal changes(?)....

I've seen the same (see the list archives) on alpha a week or 2 back. Solved
by manually making and installing csh.

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