the dreaded "Resource temporarily unavailable" in vi

[Frank Mayhar]

Doug White wrote:
> On Wed, 30 Jun 2004, Mikhail Teterin wrote:
> > read(2) is failing?
> yes we know.  I've debugged this myself and its not clear WHY its
> returning EAGAIN. Also hacking vi to handle EAGAIN here is very difficult,
> and really it should handle it.

One (small) datapoint, I seem to see it much more often when I'm using
an ssh session that also has an X application (evolution, mostly) running
in the background.  I haven't really tested this, I just have the somewhat
vague impression that if I avoid "the session with evolution running," I
won't run into the problem.

FWIW.
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