Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/3/84 (WLS Mods); site astrovax.UUCP
Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!princeton!astrovax!wls
From: wls@astrovax.UUCP (William L. Sebok)
Newsgroups: net.bugs.uucp
Subject: Re: hung line help needed
Message-ID: <489@astrovax.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 15-Nov-84 00:57:02 EST
Article-I.D.: astrovax.489
Posted: Thu Nov 15 00:57:02 1984
Date-Received: Fri, 16-Nov-84 04:36:17 EST
References: <449@godot.UUCP>
Distribution: net
Organization: Princeton Univ. Astrophysics
Lines: 18

> I have been having an awful lot of problems with hung lines with 4.2bsd
> uucp.  By hung, I mean a uucp process sitting blocking on a read from
> the dialout line, but having removed the LCKfile for that line and
> system (presumably after a timeout).  The offending processes must be
> killed by hand.  I breifly looked at the code, but I didn't notice
> anything too bad.  The stack frame at the hung point is often
> main()/conn()/login()/expect()/read(), though sometimes
> main()/imsg()/read().  Any quick fixes?
> -- 
> --Bruce Nemnich, Thinking Machines Corporation, Cambridge, MA

I am having this problem too.  I would sure as heck like to know what is
going on.  The hanging seems to occur when the load average is high.  I
believe that I installed a posted bug fix to alarm() and it didn't cure the
problem.
-- 
Bill Sebok			Princeton University, Astrophysics
{allegra,akgua,burl,cbosgd,decvax,ihnp4,noao,princeton,vax135}!astrovax!wls