``Resource temporarily unavailable'' in vi

Andrew Elmore aelmore at interwoven.com
Mon Jul 14 16:45:56 PDT 2003


On Tue, Jul 15, 2003 at 12:43:40AM +0200, Matthias Buelow wrote:
> Mikhail Teterin writes:
> 
> >Every once in a while, a vi-session dies on me with:
> >
> >	input: Resource temporarily unavailable
> 
> Are you running ksh93 per chance?  I've seen this after I started an
> OpenGL program such as xscreensaver-demo from ksh93 (however that
> could have influenced the terminal settings or whatever is beyond my
> current understanding.)


I've seen this intermittently on both -CURRENT and with 4.7; whatever
causes it seems to corrupt the state of the tty, as the only thing
that seems to reset is entering/exiting gdb.

I use ksh93.

Andrew


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