From owner-freebsd-current Sun Apr 6 05:33:48 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id FAA19256 for current-outgoing; Sun, 6 Apr 1997 05:33:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from isbalham.ist.co.uk (isbalham.ist.co.uk [192.31.26.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id FAA19245 for ; Sun, 6 Apr 1997 05:33:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gid.co.uk (uucp@localhost) by isbalham.ist.co.uk (8.8.4/8.8.4) with UUCP id NAA13601; Sun, 6 Apr 1997 13:30:12 +0100 (BST) Received: from [194.32.164.2] by seagoon.gid.co.uk; Sun, 6 Apr 1997 13:26:39 +0100 X-Sender: rb@194.32.164.1 Message-Id: In-Reply-To: References: <19970406200057.41951@usn.blaze.net.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Sun, 6 Apr 1997 13:24:20 +0100 To: Doug Rabson , David Nugent From: Bob Bishop Subject: Re: Midnight Commander Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk At 12:08 pm +0100 6/4/97, Doug Rabson wrote: >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? I've seen something similar with ftp(1) on -current. I'll check it again when it's finished building... -- Bob Bishop (0118) 977 4017 international code +44 118 rb@gid.co.uk fax (0118) 989 4254 between 0800 and 1800 UK