From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <3E381223.8090105@strakt.com> From: Boyd Roberts User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020623 Debian/1.0.0-0.woody.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] Long delay in processing under acme References: <0ae4363624a46ef938c67d0e853c47ad@centurytel.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2003 18:40:51 +0100 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 4a761e84-eacb-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 Skip Tavakkolian wrote: >Has anyone else seen this in acme: sometimes, when doing '|fmt' or >'|spell', I get a very long (20-30 seconds) delay in getting the output. > > > But that's what WNOHANG is for! :)