From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 4 09:46:13 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id JAA16548 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 4 Mar 1996 09:46:13 -0800 (PST) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id JAA16542 for ; Mon, 4 Mar 1996 09:46:11 -0800 (PST) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id KAA06168; Mon, 4 Mar 1996 10:43:32 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199603041743.KAA06168@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: Netscape an not right scroller? To: peter@jhome.DIALix.COM (Peter Wemm) Date: Mon, 4 Mar 1996 10:43:32 -0700 (MST) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "Peter Wemm" at Mar 4, 96 03:10:31 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > >From other discussions, this seems to be a difference in the atomicity > >of writes on POSIX domain (UNIX domain) sockets between BSD and Linux. [ ... actually, these other discussions were with Peter ... ] > Incidently, this is fixed in -current. I think the problem was something > to do with signal masking, but I am not certain. I am tempted to back out > all my changes one at a time on my copy and see which one was the critical > fix. I had initially argued that it was the select() restart after SIGALARM for setitimer(), but Peter argued me out of it! Never mind -- mark it as "fixed in -current". 8-). Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.