Re: Netscape brain-dead w/ 2.1.91

Roger Espel Llima (espel@llaic.u-clermont1.fr)
Sun, 29 Mar 1998 00:48:47 +0100

> Netscape still goes brain-dead under 2.1.91. Seems to work fine until you
> leave it for a while and return. At that point it becomes non-responsive
> and cannot even redraw. Attaching with gdb discloses that it's in
> select().
>
> This behavior started with 2.1.90p-whatever, and has been unrelenting
> since.

A strace(1) would probably be very useful here. Try stracing it from
the beginning (not just attaching when it's stuck), and then editing the
large dump to keep the most interesting bits (prior operations,
select()s, fcntl()s, etc, on the fd's it's getting stuck on).

-- 
Roger Espel Llima, espel@llaic.u-clermont1.fr
http://www.eleves.ens.fr:8080/home/espel/index.html


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