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- From: olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi,comp.unix.programmer
- Subject: Re: developing under sys 5 unix
- Message-ID: <uol3k48@zuni.esd.sgi.com>
- Date: 11 Jan 93 21:11:03 GMT
- References: <1993Jan11.190843.6808@CSD-NewsHost.Stanford.EDU>
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- Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc. Mountain View, CA
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- In <1993Jan11.190843.6808@CSD-NewsHost.Stanford.EDU> vahe@sparcy.Stanford.EDU (Vahe Avedissian) writes:
-
- | I don't know if anyone else has the same experience,
- | but I am always frustrated, and my patience tested
- | when developing on SGI or other machines running
- | Sys 5 unix.
-
- Umm, I don't think this has anything to do with the version of
- unix...
-
- | The real annoying thing is once you run a program
- | with a bug, the system tends to completely stop responding
- | to interrupts or anything else, the windowing
- | system and manager are rendered unresponsive too.
-
- Well, I don't quite believe that as stated either! If you have
- some problem that causes the window system or kernel to die,
- by all means report it. It may have been fixed in a later release,
- or it may have a workaround. Nobody is going to be able to help
- you with vague complaints like this.
-
- | You just sit there and wait for the system to eventually
- | (i.e. anywhere from 3 - 10 minutes or so) core dump.
-
- The kernel dumping to swap, or Xsgi dumping a file to /usr/tmp/core?
-
- | I've used Sun's for many years and I have rarely seen
- | the window manager and entire workstation come to a halt.
-
- You've been lucky...
- --
- Let no one tell me that silence gives consent, | Dave Olson
- because whoever is silent dissents. | Silicon Graphics, Inc.
- Maria Isabel Barreno | olson@sgi.com
-