Date: Sat, 23 Oct 1999 14:31:08 -0700 (PDT) From: Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com> To: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: NOTE NOTE NOTE:Re: does anybody but me (..vgrinds forever...) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9910231412430.25168-100000@semuta.feral.com> In-Reply-To: <199910231756.KAA00844@apollo.backplane.com>
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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(?).... -matt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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