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From: John Dyson <dyson>
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Subject: Re: new pipe is broken (Feb-6)
To: jdli@Adonis.Dorm10.NCTU.edu.tw (Chien-Ta Lee)
Date: Tue, 6 Feb 1996 09:24:52 -0800 (PST)
Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
In-Reply-To: <199602061548.XAA00545@Adonis.Dorm10.NCTU.edu.tw> from "Chien-Ta Lee" at Feb 6, 96 11:48:59 pm
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> 
> >Chien-Ta Lee stands accused of saying:
> >> 
> >> 
> >> 	Hi :
> >> 
> >> 	I think the new pipe is broekn, my Jan31 kernel with sys_pipe.c
> >> 	Rev 1.4 works fine on making world, but Feb6 kernel with sys_pipe.c
> >> 	Rev 1.8 hangs.
> >> 
> >> 	It just stops at the final line without core, without panic, without
> >> 	causing system load (load = 0.00), just sleep there ....
> >
> >In situations like this, you should try to include 'ps alxww' output 
> >for the relevant processes so that people can identify what the
> >process is sleeping on.
> >
> 
> Here you are ...
Got the info, and it WILL be useful now for solving the problem!!!!
THANKS!!!

John Dyson
dyson@freebsd.org