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To: karlheg+xemacs@inetarena.com (Karl M. Hegbloom)
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Subject: Re: Core dump with gnuserv, gpm on "Brussels"
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From: wmperry@aventail.com (William M. Perry)
Date: 21 Jul 1997 11:08:50 -0700
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Michael Harnois <mharnois@sbt.net> writes:

> Andreas posted a report of this as well, and asked me privately to
> check it on my system. Does anyone *not* using linux/glibc2 see this
> bug?

  Everyone should be seeing it...  What I think is happening is that GPM is
reusing the same mouse fd for each application, which seems silly.  When I
slap in the fd with select_fd() in event_unixoid.c, things go badly.  This
shouldn't depend on libc at all.

-Bill P.

