Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2004 19:43:24 -0700 (PDT) From: Frank Mayhar <frank@exit.com> To: Doug White <dwhite@gumbysoft.com> Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: the dreaded "Resource temporarily unavailable" in vi Message-ID: <200407010243.i612hOpS003814@realtime.exit.com> In-Reply-To: <20040630191238.C66769@carver.gumbysoft.com>
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Doug White wrote: > On Wed, 30 Jun 2004, Mikhail Teterin wrote: > > read(2) is failing? > yes we know. I've debugged this myself and its not clear WHY its > returning EAGAIN. Also hacking vi to handle EAGAIN here is very difficult, > and really it should handle it. One (small) datapoint, I seem to see it much more often when I'm using an ssh session that also has an X application (evolution, mostly) running in the background. I haven't really tested this, I just have the somewhat vague impression that if I avoid "the session with evolution running," I won't run into the problem. FWIW. -- Frank Mayhar frank@exit.com http://www.exit.com/ Exit Consulting http://www.gpsclock.com/ http://www.exit.com/blog/frank/
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