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From: Ish Rattan <ishwar@pali.cps.cmich.edu>
To: <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] drawterm and linux 2.4.4 SMP
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Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2001 00:24:08 -0400
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It compiles correctly if you use POSIX threads from glibc-2.2. Makefile
is now almost similar to the one for FreeBSD (POSIX thread version). I
have the it on another machine will post asap.

-hth

On Sat, 21 Jul 2001 crdevilb@mtu.edu wrote:

> I remember there was talk on the list some time ago about drawterm for
> linux and how it may very well be broken under linux 2.4; well, that
> time is here.  It seems (to me) that it is broken because I was just
> stepping through the source (because it was SEGVing), and the macro CT
> (at linux.c:30) seems to nondeterministically alternate between giving
> the right answer and giving NULL, because linux.c:/^gettss(void)
> nondeterministically alternates between returning 6 and 8...
>
> Was there some suggestion or patch anybody had to fix this, or am I
> going to be digging into the linux kernel to find yet another hack to
> solve this?
>
> Thanks in advance for any help.
>
>