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From: awhitton@bcara132.bnr.ca (Alan Whitton)
Subject: Re: Patches for pty problem?
Message-ID: <1990Jun8.115731.20594@bnrgate.bnr.ca>
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References:  <CMM.0.88.644776358.hanche@hufsa.imf.unit.no>
Date: Fri, 8 Jun 90 11:57:31 GMT

In article <CMM.0.88.644776358.hanche@hufsa.imf.unit.no>,
hanche@imf.unit.no (Harald Hanche-Olsen) writes:
> Has anybody seen any patches out there for the pseudo tty problem yet?  If
> yes, what patch tape should we ask for?
> 

As a matter of fact there is an entry for Pseudo TTYs but I am not sure
it is the problem you are talking about (the following is reproduced
without permission of Hewlett Packard or any of their subsidiaries):

     1.10  Patch m0139 /lib/streams

     Patch m0139 includes a new /lib/streams for nodes running the SR10.2
     version of Domain/OS. This patch is incompatible with all other
     releases. Patch m0139 obsoletes patch m0120 (9003) and includes the
     contents of that patch.

     Patch m0139 fixes the following problems:

        o The patch fixes most problems where the pty's were not usable by
          programs using vfork, including telnet, gnu emacs and possibly
          the vt100 emulator (APRs DDE40, DDFF8, DDEFE, DE0CF).

        o Machines under heavy loads would occasionally fail with the fol-
          lowing error message in the DM output pad (APR DD74E):

                  unable to obtain sfcb hash table mutex lock

     Install patch m0139 on nodes running the SR10.2 version of Domain/OS
     (use the bldt command to determine the revision of the operating sys-
     tem running on your workstation).

     Patch m0139 includes the following file:

       /lib/streams   1990/03/16 17:34:53 EDT (Fri)


Cheers,
Alan

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