the dreaded "Resource temporarily unavailable" in vi

[Nicolas Rachinsky]

* Doug White <dwhite at gumbysoft.com> [2004-06-30 19:13 -0700]:
> On Wed, 30 Jun 2004, Mikhail Teterin wrote:
> > It just started to happen again. Over and over, I open a file, start
> > editing, then -- at a random moment -- I get: ": input: Resource
> > temporarily unavailable" and vi exits....
> 
> 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.

It sounds somehow similar to the thread starting with
<200308071230.h77CUMgj003099 at dungeon.home> on freebsd stable (Subject:
nvi dying with "Resource temporarily unavailable"/Date: Thu, 07 Aug
2003 22:30:22 +1000).

Nicolas