Console freeze

[Matt Emmerton]

> Hi,
>
>     I am getting console freeze with recent current. I've seen the same
> a year ago
> on current and the proble is still here. One of the console freeze I've
> seen while
> intensive output from my driver (that is async driver). The other one
> I've seen
> whille cvs update (for example on alt+f2 cvs update -d . > .z; on alt+f3
> tail -f .z).
>
> console freeze:
> screen contains the last output or blank, currsor IIRC always availabe
> and it
> moves according to its usual behaviour so terminal is functional but no
> output.
>
> Any ideas?

IIRC, there was a discussion here lately about a race condition that is
being worked on (fixed?) caused by precisely what you describe -- a cvsup
(or other output-intensive process) redirecting to a file in one window, and
a tail on said file in another window.

How recent is your -current?

--
Matt