From: Joel M. Baldwin (qumqats@citrus.SAC.CA.US)
Date: 05/18/93


From: qumqats@citrus.SAC.CA.US ( Joel M. Baldwin )
Subject: Re: Signals cause write errors. Bug?
Date: Tue, 18 May 1993 09:23:51 GMT

In article <1993May17.130018.1@vax1.bham.ac.uk> B.A.McCauley@bham.ac.uk writes:
>Summary: Signals cause write errors.
>
>In fact you don't even need a pipe. `cat </dev/zero' will die
>eventually if you send it enough SIGWINCHs.

On my system ( SLS 1.00 with 0.99pl8 kernel ) I get write errors when
I try this. I seem to remember seeing people mentioning this problem
for quite some time, so its been there for quite a while.

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