Date: Mon, 21 Apr 1997 20:07:11 -0700 From: Manfred Antar <mantar@netcom.com> To: David Nugent <davidn@unique.usn.blaze.net.au>, peter@freebsd.org Cc: current@freebsd.org, toor@dyson.iquest.net, (Bruce Evans) <bde@zeta.org.au>, Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> Subject: Re: You will need to recompile your libc and apps!!! Message-ID: <3.0.1.32.19970421200711.0093b960@mantar.slip.netcom.com> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.970422121641.davidn@usn.blaze.net.au> References: <3.0.1.32.19970421174205.0093ed50@mantar.slip.netcom.com>
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At 12:10 PM 4/22/97 +1000, David Nugent wrote:
>On 22-Apr-97 Manfred Antar wrote:
> >There is a need to build a new libc to build a new mount, or to build
>> >to include the vfork/pipe changes John Dyson made to libc.
>> >
>> I Did a make world Sunday with current sources and X doesn't work any more
>> if i use a libc from last thurs (4/17/96) it works.kernel is also current
>> although and old kernel doesn't make a difference.all seemed to work well
>> till Sunday when i did make world from X and shut down.All i get is a
>> X screen with nothing else.
>> Any ideas
>
>
>Yes, the "pipe read" problem is back. I'm running a full make world
>and kernel from yesterday and xrdb stalls in piperd. Perhaps Peter's
>libc fix is better than Bruces after all? :-)
>
>The reason you're getting ony the X screen is that your .xinitrc
>hasn't completed. If you look at a process listing, you'll find
>xrdb is stalled. If you're not using any preprocessor directives in
>your .Xresources file, then add -nocpp to the invocation of xrdb
>to avoid the stall. Of course, this is only a workaround.
>
>
This Patch works for me
Thanks:
Apply this patch from Tor Egge (might not help your case.) If that
doesn't work, then try removing the RFMEM from /sys/kern/kern_fork.c.
If that works, there is some code somewhere that is using vfork, but
shouldn't. It would really be ashamed if we cannot use the RFMEM.
Index: popen.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/lib/libc/gen/popen.c,v
retrieving revision 1.8
diff -u -r1.8 popen.c
--- popen.c 1997/04/20 20:17:04 1.8
+++ popen.c 1997/04/21 14:10:59
@@ -105,7 +105,8 @@
if (pdes[1] != STDOUT_FILENO) {
(void)dup2(pdes[1], STDOUT_FILENO);
(void)close(pdes[1]);
- (void)dup2(STDOUT_FILENO, STDIN_FILENO);
+ if (twoway)
+ (void)dup2(STDOUT_FILENO, STDIN_FILENO);
} else if (twoway && (pdes[1] != STDIN_FILENO))
(void)dup2(pdes[1], STDIN_FILENO);
} else {
Manfred
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