From: zmbenhal@netcom.com (Zeyd M. Ben-Halim) Subject: problems with libc.4.3 Date: 24 Feb 1993 07:05:23 GMT
I'm not sure if this is a bug in libc.4.3 but it sure looks like it. I'm
having enormous problems getting read() to behave itself when used with
ncurses. More often than not it would fail with errno = 4 and somtimes just
crash. Also true with libc.4.2 was the fact that a SIGALRM did not cause the
read() to return despite using SA_INTERRUPT in the sigaction.
The sum of things is that read() is not restarted when it should be and is
restarted even when told not to.
Maybe a bug in the kernel?
If the NORMAL channel is a better place to discuss this please let me know.
Zeyd
PS. I tried going back to libc.4.2 but ld did not like it. Where can I get
the old ld?