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From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org, j@uriah.heep.sax.de
Subject: Re: 2.2-BETA comments
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>> Humm...  I usually use the EHS to telnet to my mail system and read
>> some mail while waiting for install to complete.  Curiously, I didn't
>> try it while my last installation of 2.2 BETA.
>
>This could have worked as well.  What seems to be broken is the
>intermittant use of single, short-term commands, mixed with keeping
>the shell idle for long periods of time.  It works initially, but as
>soon as the system gets a little more busy (or whatever might trigger
>that problem, i haven't found out yet), it suddenly stops working.

Does it still use gzipped executables?  There seem to be some bugs in
imgact_gzip.c involving use of bcopy instead of copyin/out.

Bruce