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From: witr@rwwa.COM (Robert Withrow)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: X386 on AT&T lockup problem
Message-ID: <1991Apr15.191439.9350@rwwa.COM>
Date: 15 Apr 91 19:14:39 GMT
References: <1884@svin02.info.win.tue.nl>
Organization: R.W. Withrow Associates
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In article <1884@svin02.info.win.tue.nl> debra@info.win.tue.nl writes:
>This is a description of some circumstances under which i got the
>X386a server (compiled for AT&T sVr3.2.1 with xqueue and no TCP/IP)
>to lock up. Switching VT's unlocks the server.

There are a number of race conditions in the Xqueue support in current
versions of X386.  I fixed them recently (for SVR4), but then my
system disk crashed and I lost all of the changes.  I will re-create
them and send them to Thomas.

Someone will still have to retrofit the changes to SVR3.x...


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