On Mon, 2 Dec 2002, Clint Olsen wrote:

> It's possible this is cockpit fog, but I didn't notice this until I
> upgraded to 4.7.  Certain manpages are being rendered in such a way that
> when I type 'q' to exit my PAGER (less), the pager returns to the beginning
> of the document as if it doesn't exit.  But what appears to be happening is
> that I'm getting multiple streams of output to the TTY:
>
> clint   37083  0.0  0.6  1116  588  p1  S+    2:24AM   0:00.03 man thttpd
> clint   37084  0.0  0.3   628  308  p1  S+    2:24AM   0:00.00 sh -c /usr/bin/zcat 
>/usr/local/man/cat8/thttpd.8.gz | less
> clint   37085  0.0  0.2   604  216  p1  S+    2:24AM   0:00.01 /usr/bin/zcat 
>/usr/local/man/cat8/thttpd.8.gz
>
> So, it appears that both 37084 and 37085 are writing to my TTY, which is
> why it looks like it doesn't exit...
>
> -Clint

I can second this strange behavior, but since it only happens on my
firewall machine, which I rarely use interactively, I never bothered to
diagnose it.

As such, the only insight that I can offer is that it happens on only one
of my 4.7-STABLE machines.

Marco Radzinschi
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Mon Dec  2 22:23:20 EST 2002



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