FW: Interrupted system call problem

["deCarmo, Linden" <LDecarmo at convergentnet dot com>]

Just noticed that I forgot to copy the list on my response.

Any ideas to work around this?

> On Tue, 20 Mar 2001, deCarmo, Linden wrote:
> 
> > Ok, the latest snapshot hangs rather than reports 
> "Interrupted system call"
> > whenever the the code below is executed.  To be specific, the source
> > disappears and it reports:
> > 
> > Select function name to disassemble
> > 
> > ====
> > 
> > The stack is listed as ???? 
> 
> You're probably in a dynamic loader stub or similar, sitting 
> at the first 
> instruction. Gdb is obviously a little confused about where it is... 
> (This should not happen.)
> 
> > struct timeval tv;
> >  	336	
> > -	337		tv.tv_sec = seconds;
> >  	338		tv.tv_usec = microseconds;
> > -	340		return(select(0,NULL,NULL,NULL,&tv));
> 
> Let me guess, it does this on line 340? Then I would guess 
> that shared 
> libraries are a little broken on your system. Hmmm.... 
> Solaris 2.8...  
>

Works fine with ddd/gdb, and gdb -nw.
 
> > Any idea what I can try next?  Its weird that ddd doesn't 
> have the same
> > issue using gdb.
> 
> Does command line gdb exhibit the same behavior (run the insight gdb 
> with the "-nw" flag)?
> 

No, works ok with -nw.  Only Insight exhibits this behavior.