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Re: networking code
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Carr)
Tue Sep 7 17:56:32 1993
To: marthag@athena.mit.edu
Cc: linux-dev@athena.mit.edu
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 07 Sep 1993 17:53:48 EDT."
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Date: Tue, 07 Sep 1993 17:55:58 EDT
From: John Carr <jfc@athena.mit.edu>
> I believe that is a bug in the Linux networking code. A workaround is:
> open two shells to the machine. when the one you typed the command in
> freezes (as it often does), hit return in the other shell, and the
> command will return. Yes, I this is bogus, but it does actually work.
I think I discovered that workaround by accident last night (finger
@quiche unstuck it), but it didn't work this time. I used rsh to
start a second shell and nothing happened.
