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On Thursday, 7th August 2003, Ruslan Ermilov wrote:

>On Thu, Aug 07, 2003 at 10:30:22PM +1000, Stephen McKay wrote:
>> Since I upgraded to FreeBSD 4.8 (from 4.5) I've noticed occasional failures
>> of nvi.  It will suddenly die as a key is pressed, emitting:
>>
>> Error: input: Resource temporarily unavailable
>>
>> and you are staring at your command prompt.

>> Any ideas?

>stty sane

Eh?  Which tty flag (out of the many affected by stty sane) do you believe
causes my problem?  Why would my pty be "insane" in the first place?
Should nvi be defensive and handle this case?

Stephen.