> From: roell@xinside.com (Thomas Roell)
> Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.i386unix
> Subject: Re: I want to kill my computer (or, help me install X please)
> Date: 12 Nov 1996 09:27:42 -0700
> Message-ID: <87enhzuvlt.fsf@xeno.xinside.com>
> References: <568ftj$n5k@news.doit.wisc.edu>
>
> In article <568ftj$n5k@news.doit.wisc.edu> orf@scrap.ssec.wisc.edu (Leigh Orf) writes:
>
> > has really been the problem all along, it seems. So, initially, we
> > install Slackware with whatever solid version of XFree86 was out there
> > a couple months ago, and buy the acceleratedX server (v2.1) which is
> > made by X Inside and which supports the Matrox Millenium. Everything is
> > peachy... except that windows will suddenly just "go away" with either a
> > KillClient message or return a signal of 255. So I get in touch with the
> > X Inside people, and they say "Oh yeah, we're aware of that and we're
> > working on it" and tell me to subscribe to their patches mailing list.
>
> We found now the problem. Basically it's a LINUX kernel bug. It seems
> to appear at least on kernels between 2.0.0 and 2.0.22. Older kernels
> do work fine. In case I don't bore anybody, here what's really
> happening. If you do a read() system call in a non-blocking device,
> and it get's interrupted in the system call (which kind of should not
> happen at all), then a posix compilant system (and LINUX for that
> matter) should return an error of EAGAIN. However the kernels
> mentioned above randomly return either EINTR (which is for blocking
> devices) or ERESTARTSYS, which the docs say "Should never be seen by
> user programs".
>
> So you might want to go back to an older kernel. We are here trying to
> figure out whether there is an easy patch the kernel to correct this
> behaviour, since it breaks other programs, like 'telnet' as well.
>
> - Thomas
>
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