On Thu, Jan 29, 2004 at 08:58:25PM -0500, Thomas Dickey wrote: > On Wed, Jan 28, 2004 at 11:37:39PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > > > Don Armstrong and I both have PowerPC machines, but he experiences the > > problem, and I don't. > > > > I prepared an unstripped, unoptimized, trace-enabled xterm binary for > > PowerPC and Don and I each produced xterm Traces and system call > > straces. > > > > Hopefully these will be of some use in tracking down the bug. > > They seem to give some hints. Your trace shows the process-ids, no timestamps > and Don's doesn't show process-ids. But stripping away that column, I can see > that his process is (I'm guessing) running on a network connection while yours > is local machine (that's guessing by looking at some of the calls they make). > His is getting occasional EAGAIN errno's reading from the pty (perhaps because > it's slower). I don't see any detail from the subprocess on his - perhaps it > doesn't use the -f option of strace. Anyway, it seems that the failure is > on the child process, since I don't see a call on the parent side that fails. Don was running across a network connection, but he said he experienced the exact same problem locally. -- G. Branden Robinson | Of two competing theories or Debian GNU/Linux | explanations, all other things branden@debian.org | being equal, the simpler one is to http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | be preferred. -- Occam's Razor
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