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From: David Moore <dmoore@ucsd.edu>
Date: 21 Mar 1997 16:46:58 -0800
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"Tom Howland" <tomh@VNET.IBM.COM> writes:

> First, the efs bug. It asks me "blah blah does not seem to be a valid
> pty. Delete?" to which I replied "y" and then the thing crashes with an
> assertion.

Yes, I've seen this message under solaris 2.5.  I can be doing things
with efs for hours, then 5 minutes later efs doesn't think the
connection is a pty anymore.  Is there any reason that efs needs to keep
checking a connection for being a pty once it's already established that
is one?  I mean, other than exercising XEmacs bugs.

If you hit 'y', efs goes and kills the buffer associated with the
process, which brings out plenty of bugs in the XEmacs code for file
handlers, especially if a GC occurs during this time.  Hopefully I'll
have patches for this tonight.

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