Re: Something odd with KDE on -current

[Andreas Kähäri <ak@freeshell.org>]

On Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 05:57:13PM -0400, STeve Andre' wrote:
> A few minutes ago I was editing a file with vi.  In the process
> of changing text, I got a message that said something to the
> effect of
> 
>    error: input temorarily unavailable
> 
> and then was exited from vi.  The error message disappeared
> so quickly I'm not sure that the above is accurate.
> 
> I can't reproduce the error either.  I don't see any error messages
> like that in the vi src, so I am making a guess that this is in KDE
> somewhere.
> 
> Sorry to be vague; I don't have more data, yet.  This is on -current
> compiled Aug 28th with src taken from anoncvs1, using the 0826
> package set.

The error message was probably

    Error: input: Resource temporarily unavailable

It has been reported recently on a FreeBSD list in connection
with nvi:

    http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=106025951500001

I know too little about the things involved here so I can't
draw any useful conclusions.  Someone in the thread mentions a
missing check for EAGAIN around a read() in common/cl_read.c...

Andreas



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Andreas Kähäri
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