FreeBSD and filePro weirdness

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Thu, Dec 07, 2006 at 06:24:54PM -0500, John Esak wrote:
> I don't have any other data about the problem other than I am using the
> *exact* same termcap locally on my WAN. The same Windows box using FacetWin,
> and the same OS on the Unix box (SCO 5.6.) and it *never* and I mean never
> happens in this situation. However, when I go across the WAN, either through
> my VPN or across the the public IP avoiding the VPN, the problem happens
> about 90% of the time I press BREAK while at the filePro clerk menu. Now,
> another (I think) very important factor. If I do not press BREAK to quickly
> after the clerk menu appears... it will not do the screw up. It only happens
> when I am say at a filePro record... and I press BREAK BREAK BREAK repatedly
> to back me out of the record, the index, the clerk menu, etc. back to the
> shell. When I do this quicly, the problem happens. When I do it slowly, the
> problem does not happen. Important??

Yes.

telnet and related protocols tend to send Interrupts out-of-band,
marked with the TCP urgent bit.  On a high-latency link, this might
well result in a BREAK beating a SAVE to the process, at the end of an
add loop -- which I assume is what's at issue here.

HTH.

Cheers,
-- jra
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