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- From: rhcoe@buscfg.austin.ibm.com (Rich Coe)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
- Subject: Re: Is vi broken under 3.2?
- Keywords: hung ptys and ttys
- Message-ID: <1992Jul30.015133.19393@awdprime.austin.ibm.com>
- Date: 30 Jul 92 01:51:33 GMT
- References: <13sjp3INN1i1@agate.berkeley.edu> <1992Jul14.121659.28442@email.tuwien.ac.at>
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- Reply-To: rhcoe@aixwiz.austin.ibm.com (Rich Coe)
- Followup-To: comp.unix.aix
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- In article <1992Jul14.121659.28442@email.tuwien.ac.at> fritscher@edvz.tuwien.ac.at writes:
- >In article <13sjp3INN1i1@agate.berkeley.edu>, gezelter@sam.cchem.berkeley.edu (Dan Gezelter) writes:
- >|> We recently upgraded an RS/6000 540 to AIX v. 3.2. A few of our users
- >|> have noticed that vi occasionally "hangs" under the new OS, forcing them
- >|> to kill the vi process and reset the window that was running vi.
- >|>
- >|> Has anyone else seen this problem, and if so, what did you do about it?
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- This is one of two problems due to serialization in the tty subsystem code.
- Order the following 2 apars from your Country's support organization
- (or SE) to fix the problem.
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- ix24895 pty device driver (processes hung on output)
- ix24329 posix line discipline (processes hung on input, w/ input available)
-
- Regards, Rich Coe
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