Mercurial > emacs
changeset 63126:33a466a1789c
Linux kernel 2.6.10 may corrupt process output.
Warn that using CVS+SSH may corrupt files, include work-around.
| author | Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk> |
|---|---|
| date | Wed, 08 Jun 2005 12:13:32 +0000 |
| parents | 5e05e591718a |
| children | 20c2d120fc79 |
| files | etc/PROBLEMS |
| diffstat | 1 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/etc/PROBLEMS Wed Jun 08 12:13:21 2005 +0000 +++ b/etc/PROBLEMS Wed Jun 08 12:13:32 2005 +0000 @@ -1579,6 +1579,24 @@ ** GNU/Linux +*** GNU/Linux: Process output is corrupted. + +There is a bug in Linux kernel 2.6.10 PTYs that can cause emacs to +read corrupted process output. + +*** GNU/Linux: Remote access to CVS with SSH causes file corruption. + +If you access a remote CVS repository via SSH, files may be corrupted +due to bad interaction between CVS, SSH, and libc. + +To fix the problem, save the following script into a file, make it +executable, and set CVS_RSH environment variable to the file name of +the script: + +#!/bin/bash +exec 2> >(exec cat >&2 2>/dev/null) +exec ssh "$@" + *** GNU/Linux: On Linux-based GNU systems using libc versions 5.4.19 through 5.4.22, Emacs crashes at startup with a segmentation fault.