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From: Marcus Leech, M.D.
Date: Fri, 05 Apr 1991 13:47

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This bug report applies to Emacs18.56 on HP/UX6.5 on an HP9000/360.

In an environment with large YP databases, the getpwuid() called in
  init_editfns() can get hosed if the SIGALRM posted by init_keyboard
  times out before the getpwuid() finishes up. It seems that the
  HP/UX ypclnt library routines don't take kindly to having their
  I/O interrupted by a SIGALRM. It can take such a long time because
  the HP implementation of getpwuid() for YP is quite slow anyway, and
  large YP maps make it worse.

Fix is to turn off the SIGALRM timer in init_editfns() and restore it
  on exit from init_editfns().
--
Marcus Leech, 4Y11             Bell-Northern Research  |opinions expressed
mleech@bnr.ca                  P.O. Box 3511, Stn. C   |are my own, and not
VE3MDL@VE3JF.ON.CAN.NA         Ottawa, ON, CAN K1Y 4H7 |necessarily BNRs

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