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Re: sun4 8.4.1: discuss
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Richard Tibbetts)
Mon Jun 19 11:42:38 2000
Message-Id: <200006191542.LAA19003@hikari-no-ken.mit.edu>
To: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
cc: "Nathan J. Williams" <nathanw@MIT.EDU>, testers@MIT.EDU, tibbetts@MIT.EDU
In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 19 Jun 2000 11:31:54 EDT."
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Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2000 11:42:31 -0400
From: Richard Tibbetts <tibbetts@MIT.EDU>
On 6/19 you wrote:
> > What were you trying to do?
> > Interrupt listing a meeting with control-C and restart.
>
> This is a very long-standing known discuss problem. (Well, known to
> me; I'm not sure how many of the other developers have been around
> long enough to remember the last time it was reported.) I can't
> guarantee that it will be fixed any time soon, unfortunately.
This is actually (I think) a fundamental problem with libss. I found a
similar problem while hacking on olc. Basically the signal handling
sucks, and this is a fundamental flaw in the library. Reimplementing
libss didn't seem worth the trouble, especially since the bug probably
only gets tickled a couple of times a year and (afaict) doesn't cause
any particular damage.
tibbetts
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