mgetty 1.1.9 and Supra FaxModem 28.8

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Hi,

Scott Dudley wrote:
> I'm running mgetty 1.1.9 on a Red Hat 5.0 system with Supra FaxModem 28.8's 

Don't.  Upgrade to 1.1.10 or higher if you use RH 5.0, because 1.1.9
doesn't work correctly with GNU libc.

> flashed to 33.6.  It's only been running for a week but occasionally, 
> mgetty holds the uucp lock on the port and won't release.  

This happens if something timeouts, or better, *would* timeout,  because
timeout handling of 1.1.9 with GNU libc is broken.

(Klaus - can we add this to the FAQ?)

gert

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