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Date:      Sun, 6 Apr 1997 12:08:40 +0100 (BST)
From:      Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com>
To:        David Nugent <davidn@unique.usn.blaze.net.au>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Midnight Commander
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.95q.970406120736.654F-100000@herring.nlsystems.com>
In-Reply-To: <19970406200057.41951@usn.blaze.net.au>

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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<tm> :-)).
> 
> 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?

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Doug Rabson				Mail:  dfr@nlsystems.com
Nonlinear Systems Ltd.			Phone: +44 181 951 1891




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