[9820] in Athena Bugs
RS/6000 xterm
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Carr)
Sat Aug 22 16:36:30 1992
To: bugs@Athena.MIT.EDU, bug-x11r5@Athena.MIT.EDU
Date: Sat, 22 Aug 1992 16:36:12 EDT
From: John Carr <jfc@Athena.MIT.EDU>
Article 16335 in comp.unix.aix:
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x,comp.unix.aix
From: mycroft@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Charles Hannum)
Subject: Re: strange xterm error message
Date: Sat, 22 Aug 1992 17:50:39 GMT
In article <BtCxxI.4Fp@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> phil@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Phil
Howard) writes:
>
> I get the following error message INTERMITTENTLY when I execute xterm
> under AIX. I have never seen it on other systems.
>
> xterm: Error 23, errno 22: Invalid argument
This is due to a bug in the AIX 3.1 kernel which causes it not to
properly deallocate PTYs when they are closed. The net effect is that
the PTY is left with the wrong line discipline the next time something
tries to use it. `xterm' spews this unhelpful error message; `login'
just hangs; etc.
The solution is to get AIX 3.2, or patch xterm to change the line
discipline to `posix' itself.
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