From owner-freebsd-current Sat Oct 23 14:31:11 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from feral.com (feral.com [192.67.166.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2F25814A2C for ; Sat, 23 Oct 1999 14:31:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mjacob@feral.com) Received: from semuta.feral.com (semuta [192.67.166.70]) by feral.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id OAA23416; Sat, 23 Oct 1999 14:31:06 -0700 Date: Sat, 23 Oct 1999 14:31:08 -0700 (PDT) From: Matthew Jacob Reply-To: mjacob@feral.com To: Matthew Dillon Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: NOTE NOTE NOTE:Re: does anybody but me (..vgrinds forever...) In-Reply-To: <199910231756.KAA00844@apollo.backplane.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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