Subject: Re: problems with using pine
To: None <current-users@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Simon J. Gerraty <sjg@zen.void.oz.au>
List: current-users
Date: 05/04/1996 12:28:49
Peter Seebach <seebs@solon.com> writes:
>I haven't found a patch for it; I just kill pine occasionally. I'm
>assuming the morons didn't bother to check for EOF, because it looks like
>it's busy-looping on "invalid input". !@#*!@#.
Yep, this is the first thing to go looking for.
I had a similar problem on a machine where some users used zsh.
I forget which version, but a < latest zsh would read eof, then go
re-try forever. This esp happend if the telnet it was running under
died.
Wading though the code of some of these layer upon layer progs is a
bitch, so make sure you compiled with -g and kill -6 it, you'll
probably find it was in a read().
--sjg