From owner-cvs-all Mon Oct 19 05:55:31 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id FAA01896 for cvs-all-outgoing; Mon, 19 Oct 1998 05:55:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ifi.uio.no (ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id FAA01875; Mon, 19 Oct 1998 05:55:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dag-erli@ifi.uio.no) Received: from skejdbrimir.ifi.uio.no (2602@skejdbrimir.ifi.uio.no [129.240.65.2]) by ifi.uio.no (8.8.8/8.8.7/ifi0.2) with SMTP id OAA25152; Mon, 19 Oct 1998 14:54:35 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from localhost (dag-erli@localhost) by skejdbrimir.ifi.uio.no ; Mon, 19 Oct 1998 12:54:18 GMT Mime-Version: 1.0 To: Tom Jackson Cc: "Dag-Erling C. =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?=" , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/window wwspawn.c wwterminfo.c References: <199810131514.IAA13889@freefall.freebsd.org> <19981018011048.D1263@TOJ.org> <19981018105943.A4144@TOJ.org> <19981018192023.A7241@TOJ.org> Organization: University of Oslo, Department of Informatics X-url: http://www.stud.ifi.uio.no/~dag-erli/ X-other-addresses: 'finger dag-erli@ifi.uio.no' for a list X-disclaimer-1: The views expressed in this article are mine alone, and do X-disclaimer-2: not necessarily coincide with those of any organisation or X-disclaimer-3: company with which I am or have been affiliated. X-Stop-Spam: http://www.cauce.org/ From: dag-erli@ifi.uio.no (Dag-Erling C. =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= ) Date: 19 Oct 1998 14:54:12 +0200 In-Reply-To: Tom Jackson's message of "Sun, 18 Oct 1998 19:20:23 -0500" Message-ID: Lines: 18 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.5/Emacs 19.34 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by hub.freebsd.org id FAB01890 Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk Tom Jackson writes: > > OBTW, can you verify whether or not an older version of window(1) > > (from before my commit) exhibits the same bug under the same > > circumstances? > Backing wwspawn.c to -r 1.2 seems to fix it here *almost* 100%. > Running on server with 8 ttyv configured and 4 turned on and on > a laptop with 7 configured and 4 turned on. I'm fairly sure if I > run it well over 25 times I can get it to mess at least once but > not very often, much improved from ver 1.3. No, *ptys* not vtys. Window runs programs in ptys and shows its output on some kind of tty. If you're out of ptys, you won't be able to open more windows in window(1). That's why I asked if you had enough free ptys. DES -- Dag-Erling Smørgrav - dag-erli@ifi.uio.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message