From owner-freebsd-current Sun Apr 6 04:08:57 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id EAA16240 for current-outgoing; Sun, 6 Apr 1997 04:08:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nlsystems.com (nlsys.demon.co.uk [158.152.125.33]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id EAA16235 for ; Sun, 6 Apr 1997 04:08:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from herring.nlsystems.com (herring.nlsystems.com [10.0.0.2]) by nlsystems.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id MAA03879; Sun, 6 Apr 1997 12:08:40 +0100 (BST) Date: Sun, 6 Apr 1997 12:08:40 +0100 (BST) From: Doug Rabson To: David Nugent cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Midnight Commander In-Reply-To: <19970406200057.41951@usn.blaze.net.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sun, 6 Apr 1997, David Nugent wrote: > I've verified this on two machines recently, but it seems that > at least since the lite2 merge, "mc" seems broken. It mostly > works, but is prone to hanging, and will *always* hang when > type ^O to get to the background/pty shell. I tried both the > pre-compiled port, then building it fresh from sources (not that > I expected this to make a difference, but this was the road of > Least Effort :-)). > > Before I waste a couple of hours looking into this, does anyone > have any ideas? According to ps, it seems to be hung in "sbwait". Hmm. I have noticed that man(1) sometimes hangs in sbwait on one of my systems. It always comes back after 20 seconds or so. Maybe this is related? -- Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 181 951 1891