roger%epistemi.edinburgh.ac.uk@NSFNET-RELAY.AC.UK (& Burroughes) (03/01/90)
I recently mailed the sun-managers mailing list with a query about emacs locking up when a broadcast message was issued, and had several replies - one of which suggested that I get in touch with you, since the sender had experienced similar problems and had fixed them with a patch from yourselves. Any help would be greatly appreciated - the original posting is appended. Thanks. Roger Burroughes <---------- We have an interaction problem when running Gnu Emacs <VERSION 18.52> on Sun 4/330s <SunOS4.0.3> and a broadcast message is issued using the "wall" command. Normal usage of Gnu Emacs is fine, but the following problem occurs on a reasonably consistent basis: each time a broadcast message from "shutdown" (or directly from "wall") hits the screen, users who are inside Gnu see the message appear - but then find that their terminals hang. This happens on terminals connected via SpiderPorts (and thus via Telnet) and on Macintoshes connected via NCSA Telnet across a Kinetics FastPath. It also happens if a user is logged in from another UNIX host over the ethernet. No further action is possible for that user, although control returns to the terminal if the Gnu Emacs process is killed. Since most of our users use Gnu a lot of the time, this is rather disastrous. Anyone seen this or have any ideas as to what's happening? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Roger Burroughes Phone: +44 31 667 1011 x6651 | University of Edinburgh UUCP: ...!uunet!mcvax!ukc!its63b!cogsci!roger | Centre for Cognitive Science ARPA: roger%cogsci.ed.ac.uk@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk| 2 Buccleuch Place JANET: roger@uk.ac.ed.epistemi | Edinburgh EH8 9LW Scotland