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From: dave adkins <adkin003@tc.umn.edu>
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Subject: Re: netscape problems
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On Tue, 16 Dec 1997, dave adkins wrote:

> 
> Since the addition of poll to the ufs functions of current after
> Dec 14, netscape 4.04 seems to hang during cache reads from disk. 
> 


I narrowed it down to vop_stdpoll. If vop_stdpoll is replaced in a current
system with vop_nopoll (ufs_vnops.c) the problem goes away.  It looks like
as far as netscape 4.04 is concerned vop_stdpoll confuses the select
function. BTW, i failed to mention that the system is SMP. 

dave adkins