Date: Fri, 08 Aug 2003 10:57:13 +1000 From: Stephen McKay <smckay@internode.on.net> To: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> Cc: Stephen McKay <smckay@internode.on.net> Subject: Re: nvi dying with "Resource temporarily unavailable" Message-ID: <200308080057.h780vDdx005361@dungeon.home> In-Reply-To: <3F327F44.9080909@mac.com> from Chuck Swiger at "Thu, 07 Aug 2003 12:33:08 -0400" References: <200308071230.h77CUMgj003099@dungeon.home> <3F327F44.9080909@mac.com>
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On Thursday, 7th August 2003, Chuck Swiger wrote: >Stephen McKay wrote: >> Since I upgraded to FreeBSD 4.8 (from 4.5) I've noticed occasional failures >> of nvi. It will suddenly die as a key is pressed, emitting: >> >> Error: input: Resource temporarily unavailable >> >> and you are staring at your command prompt. >> >> I googled for this message and found that people here and there have been >> complaining of this since about FreeBSD 4.2, but that absolutely none of >> them have received a reply. > >Are you using bash as your shell, by any chance? Zsh, actually. Long live zsh! :-) I suppose zsh could be interfering with the pty, but this failure happens in the middle of an editing session, not at the start. I assumed some sort of race condition, but couldn't (easily) find anything in the nvi code. Stephen.
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