xterm dies on ISC2.2 with "no more processes"

[Gregory F. Hogg]

In article <515 at uucs1.UUCP> rfp at uucs1.UUCP (Roger F. Powell) writes:
>In article <559 at jahangir.UUCP> marc at jahangir.UUCP (Marc Rossner) writes:
>>We are running ISC2.2 with 2.2.1 fixes on a Northgate 486 with X11/1.2
>>and the X server will occasionally die with the error:
>>
>>"xterm:  Error 50, errno 11: No more processes"
>>
>We have seen the same problem on a generic 25Mhz 386 system with an
>Adaptec SCSI controller, Paradise 8514, etc.  I can reliably reproduce
>it by pulling up an xterm from our ISC/386 system, displaying on an
>X server on another system, an then ignoring it.  After a while, it
>will croak as above.
>

	I had this problem and 'fixed' it by setting TMOUT=0.  I.e. I
told korn shell not to timeout and this problem stoped.
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				Greg Hogg

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