Re: two bugs in libio environment

[Jeff Bailey]

On Sun, Mar 24, 2002 at 11:04:46PM -0500, Marcus Brinkmann wrote:

> The second bug that does not happen as often is that a program hangs
> without outputting anything (well, I am not sure _which_ program
> hangs, so it might also be in the middle of output, but only at the
> start of a new line).  This seems to be more like something that can
> be introduced by the libio change, as this has to do with buffered
> output.  This has happened to me twice today.  Terminal echo still
> worked, and interrupting the program and then restarting helped.

I've definetly seen this in stdio builds.  I used to work around it by
making sure I was always running screen.  That way I could hop over
and kill the task (since C-c's appear to be frequently not respected)

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