strange timeout-problems with mgetty/vgetty

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hi,

On Fri, Jul 30, 1999 at 11:11:24AM +0000, Roland Wagner wrote:
> Everything works fine, except phone stops ringing before estimated
> ring-count is reached.
> As you can see in the log-file (following at the end of these message)
> there is always a different timeout. Sometimes it's 9 minutes, somtimes
> it's
> more than an 70 minutes and somtimes there is no return and I have
> to kill vgetty - last example in logfile (or timeout is > 3 hours).

This is caused by using 1.1.8 with GNU libc 2 - the timeout handling
doesn't properly work (the libc people changed the siginterrupt
semantics).

Use 1.1.21 and it will work.

gert
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