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From: rmtodd@servalan.uucp (Richard Todd)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux
Subject: Re: Minor problems with ELM and A/UX
Message-ID: <1991Apr12.034901.7685@servalan.uucp>
Date: 12 Apr 91 03:49:01 GMT
References: <1991Apr11.131729.3514@panix.uucp>
Organization: Ministry of Silly Walks
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alexis@panix.uucp (Alexis Rosen) writes:
>1) Often, when I ues job control to go off and do something, when I come back
>to ELM it no longer acts as soon as I type a character- it waits for a return
>(or newline, I suppose).  Clearly it's somehow getting confused about ioctls

>2) Occasionally, when I use fg to return to ELM, it prints "Alarm Clock" and
>dies rather sloppily, leaving my mailbox in /tmp.  Does ELM not like staying
>in the background for long periods of time?

Just as a wild guess, perhaps ELM is getting confused about signal handling
because of the SysV semantics being enabled by default.  Try sticking a 
call to set42sig() somewhere in the main() function and see if that helps.
I've found that's helped other programs that die strangely of "Alarm Clock",
and other programs as well -- as I recall, Epoch didn't work worth a damn
until I put the set42sig() in...
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