Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2007 01:02:39 +0100 (BST) From: Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org> To: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: watch(8) stuck in devdrn Message-ID: <20070601010212.F77697@fledge.watson.org> In-Reply-To: <20070531180555.GA10910@kobe.laptop> References: <20070531183719.B77697@fledge.watson.org> <20070531180555.GA10910@kobe.laptop>
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On Thu, 31 May 2007, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > On 2007-05-31 18:38, Robert Watson <rwatson@freebsd.org> wrote: >> I was using watch(8) this afternoon, and on trying to quit, ran into this: >> >> peppercorn:~> ps axl | grep watch >> 0 14200 14194 0 -8 0 3416 1056 devdrn D p2- 0:00.01 watch -W tt >> >> It was running on a pty, but the target tty was ttyv1. > > If you have kern.pts.enable=1 you may have to use: > http://hg.hellug.gr/freebsd/src-keramida/file/944ac3982de1/pty-devdrn > > Without this patch and kern.pts.enable=1 all ptys seem to get stuck in > devdrn on process exit. AFAIK, Kostik Belousov and Tor Egge know this and > are already working on a fix: I'm not using pts.enable on this box. Robert N M Watson Computer Laboratory University of Cambridge
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