[85] in NetBSD-Development
one minor accomplishment; several bugs..
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Sommerfeld)
Wed Aug 10 19:52:51 1994
Date: Wed, 10 Aug 1994 19:52:12 -0400
From: Bill Sommerfeld <wesommer@MIT.EDU>
To: netbsd-dev@MIT.EDU
Minor accomplishment: I just installed zsh (2.5.0) in sipbbin.
I noticed the following bugs (excuse me if any of these aren't new,
but this is the first time that I've managed to use the PC since it
arrived..).
1) At least in my environment, M-x server-start hangs emacs
unkillably I haven't been able to debug this, but as best I can tell,
emacs vforks and execs the subprocess. The subprocess hangs
unkillably. The parent process also hangs unkillably, because of the
vfork semantics emulation in NetBSD (block parent process until child
exec's or fork's).
The pair of processes looks like this:
8973 11095 1 9 10 0 1924 192 ppwait D p1- 0:01.50 emacs
8973 11196 11195 0 4 0 1928 20 ttyout IEs+ p1 0:00.02 (emacs)
Since lola isn't running with DDB, I can't (easily) look more closely
to see where proc 11196 is hung.
2) mouse-button-down events don't seem to register until after you
move the mouse. This could be a PS/2 mouse driver bug.. but who
knows, anyhow..
3) I get "initgroups: wesommer is in too many groups" all too
frequently..
- Bill
