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>>>>> "Poul-Henning" == Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> writes:

Poul-Henning> In message <20041214194010.GD37432@dan.emsphone.com>,
Poul-Henning> Dan Nelson writes:
>> In the last episode (Dec 14), David Gilbert said:
>>> I cvsup'd to current this morning and many jobs are dying in the
>>> 'E' state.  Any idea what is causing this?
>>  man ps:
>> 
>> E The process is trying to exit.
>> 
>> Usually caused by queued up data on a tty not being flushed because
>> someone has hit ^S.

Poul-Henning> This may be my fault, I'm testing a patch right now.

Such a tease :).  May I try a copy of that patch?  It's either that or
go back to stable as I need to get work done tomorrow :).

Dave.

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