> I'm now fairly confident that usleep(3) is the culprit; I've already
> changed these on the main branch, but there may be other problems
> so there're not yet on the release branch (which I guess is the base
> for sup and tar already).

Yup.

> 
> I've included the current usleep.c below. If you run an up-to-date ld.so
> you can easily try it out by doing:
> 
> 	% cc -fpic -c usleep.c
> 	% ld -Bshareable -o usleep.so usleep.o
> 	% setenv LD_PRELOAD sleep.so
> 	% xinit
> 
> 
> -pk
> 
Since installing this I've not been able to reproduce the problem, thanks
pk! You are God!

Neil.
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Neil J. McRae.                                            Demon Internet
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