On Thu, 28 Sep 1995, George E. Navas wrote:

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> I'm currently running NETBSD 1.0 and it works great. However, at times
> it appears that if a telnet connection is dropped and you are in the
> middle of vi, the vi command goes into a loop consuming all of the CPU.
> I was wondering if anybody else encountered a similar problem or has
> any info on why this happens.=20
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> Thanks in Advance
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Vi? That way a new one...
We are running AIX on a couple of RS6000, and has the same problem mainly=
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with elm and pine.

I think the cause simply is that the program looses connection with the=20
terminal, but don't "understand it".
It simply keep trying to get userdata from the tty that not is=20
responding, thus ending up in an endless loop.

If there is a solution to the problem, I'm unaware of it. We simply=20
solved it by creating a crontab-job, that looks for pine / elm -
processeses that uses more than 20% of the CPU.

Hope someone else knows better :-)

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