Re: Problem moving applets between panels

[George <jirka 5z com>]

On Mon, Jul 20, 1998 at 09:46:36AM +0100, Dick Porter wrote:
> > can you do a backtrace ... I can't run the panel/corba now since I'm trying
> > to get orbit to run on the alpha (with absolutely no luck as of yet) ... but
> > the last time i had mico running it was working fine ...
> 
> You need a glibc or a kernel patch. Basically, the problem is that the
> poll() syscall it tries returns EPERM, not ENOSYS, so glibc never reverts
> to the select() emulation. I'll attach my glibc patch below. The kernel patch
> is also simple, in arch/alpha/kernel/traps.c::do_entSys(), change the
> "return -1" to "return -ENOSYS".
> 
> I'm running the glibc kludge, and its working fine. I've been assured by
> Richard Henderson that the kernel patch wont break anything.

I'll try it tommorrow ... thanks

George

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