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From: robert@il.ft.hse.nl (robert)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Pine uses huge amount of cpu time - why?
Date: 28 Mar 1996 10:05:48 +0100
Organization: LSD...melts in your mind, not in your hand
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aslam@lums.edu.pk (Sohail Aslam):
>I installed the pine package from the walnut FreeBSD 2.0.5 CD. The pine version
>is 3.91. At times, the telnet sessions abort and pine is left running.
>Why does pine use huge amount of cpu time?
It's not only PINE that does this. I think it has to do with the
program not being able to write to the tty it was on (which, when the
telnetd died, got disowned), and therefore going into an infinite, quite
cpu-extensive, write-loop.
robert