On Thursday, 7th August 2003, Chuck Swiger wrote: >Stephen McKay wrote: >> Since I upgraded to FreeBSD 4.8 (from 4.5) I've noticed occasional failures >> of nvi. It will suddenly die as a key is pressed, emitting: >> >> Error: input: Resource temporarily unavailable >> >> and you are staring at your command prompt. >> >> I googled for this message and found that people here and there have been >> complaining of this since about FreeBSD 4.2, but that absolutely none of >> them have received a reply. > >Are you using bash as your shell, by any chance?
Zsh, actually. Long live zsh! :-) I suppose zsh could be interfering with the pty, but this failure happens in the middle of an editing session, not at the start. I assumed some sort of race condition, but couldn't (easily) find anything in the nvi code. Stephen. _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
