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Date:      Thu, 1 Jul 2004 08:11:06 +0200
From:      Nicolas Rachinsky <list@rachinsky.de>
To:        stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: the dreaded "Resource temporarily unavailable" in vi
Message-ID:  <20040701061106.GA34875@pc5.i.0x5.de>
In-Reply-To: <20040630191238.C66769@carver.gumbysoft.com>
References:  <200406301709.02239@misha-mx.virtual-estates.net> <20040630191238.C66769@carver.gumbysoft.com>

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* Doug White <dwhite@gumbysoft.com> [2004-06-30 19:13 -0700]:
> On Wed, 30 Jun 2004, Mikhail Teterin wrote:
> > It just started to happen again. Over and over, I open a file, start
> > editing, then -- at a random moment -- I get: ": input: Resource
> > temporarily unavailable" and vi exits....
> 
> yes we know.  I've debugged this myself and its not clear WHY its
> returning EAGAIN. Also hacking vi to handle EAGAIN here is very difficult,
> and really it should handle it.

It sounds somehow similar to the thread starting with
<200308071230.h77CUMgj003099@dungeon.home> on freebsd stable (Subject:
nvi dying with "Resource temporarily unavailable"/Date: Thu, 07 Aug
2003 22:30:22 +1000).

Nicolas



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