[14834] in Athena Bugs
sun4 8.0J: talk
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sasha Malchik)
Wed Nov 20 00:20:48 1996
To: bugs@MIT.EDU
Date: Wed, 20 Nov 1996 00:20:43 EST
From: Sasha Malchik <sasha@MIT.EDU>
System name: m38-370-6
Type and version: SPARC/4 8.0J
Display type: cgthree
What were you trying to do?
using talk
What's wrong:
getting "alarm clock" error when trying to connect to remote machine.
This always precludes me from connecting to a UC Davis machine,
for instance, but when that happens while trying to connect to
other machines, re-trying usually helps.
What should have happened:
connect and talk
Please describe any relevant documentation references:
Someone on the -i help instance suggested the following:
"
That's usually because someone compiled talk in a BSD-compatibility
mode, where the signal handlers don't get reinstalled. In this case,
the signal handler for the SIGALRM signal didn't get reinstalled; it's
probably used to time how long gaps are between re-ringing the remote
user with the alarm() system call.
By "BSD compatibility mode" I'm actually assuming that "talk" is
#ifdef'd for BSD vs SVR4.
"
