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Re: [gpsd-dev] Hang on Linux/Ubuntu
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Eric S. Raymond |
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Re: [gpsd-dev] Hang on Linux/Ubuntu |
Date: |
Wed, 11 Feb 2015 14:18:33 -0500 |
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Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) |
Hal Murray <address@hidden>:
> If nothing else, I'd expect some sort of timeout mechanism. Test code should
> print out helpful messages when things don't work as expected.
I have in fact been thinking about how to implement something like this.
> Eric: Should we track down where it was hanging, and understand why?
Few things would please me more. But this sort of thing (edge cases in
tty layer behavior) is *notoriously* hard to root-cause or even
characterize.
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