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From: rmtodd@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu (Richard Michael Todd)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux
Subject: Re: building rn for A/UX 2.0
Message-ID: <1990Sep26.184104.27321@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu>
Date: 26 Sep 90 18:41:04 GMT
References: <10509@panix.UUCP>
Organization: Engineering Computer Network, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK
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alexis@panix.UUCP (Alexis Rosen) writes:
>rn does not like job control. In particular, when I resume a suspended rn:
>>rn read error: Interrupted system call
>>
>>Caught an internal error--.newsrc restored


>I have no problem with hacking on a little code now and then but I don't
>understand _why_ rn is having this trouble- I though the whole point of
>those defines was to make stuff like this automatic. What's more, when I
>built rn under A/UX 1.1 I'm don't recall this being a problem.

I've seen this before occasionally on A/UX 1.1.  I've also seen it occasionally
on an Encore Multimax running BSD4.2 and BSD4.3-tahoe.  Unless Apple software
people have been sticking SysV-isms in the Encore kernel in the dead of night
:-), I don't think this is an Apple-specific problem.  
-- 
Richard Todd   rmtodd@chinet.chi.il.us  or  rmtodd@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu  
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