>>>>> "Stefano" == Stefano Ghirlanda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Stefano> Hi all,
>> Speaking about lyxserver problems, there is one which bothers me
>> now: it does not work at all on Digital Unix, due to a peculiarity
>> of the select() implementation (excerpt from the man page):
>>
>> [Digital] Objects ready for the requested operation are those which
>> the operation would not block and not necessarily those which have
>> data avail- able for the operation.
>>
>> So the current behaviour is that the pipes are constantly being
>> created/deleted by LyX, which is not very convenient (select() is
>> triggered, and since there is nothing to read in the pipe, lyx
>> considers that there is an error and closes the pipe).
>>
>> Any idea?
Stefano> I'm sorry, I have no experience about Digital Unix. Some help
Stefano> might be on the page:
Stefano> http://www.unix.digital.com/faqs/publications/pub_page/porting.html
Stefano> but maybe the porting guides are too generic. We might ask on
Stefano> the user list if someone is using LyX on that system and if
Stefano> he know about programming... Stefano
I did not know of these pages, but they did not help much... Maybe the
Digital porting assistant may be of some help, but I doubt it.
It seems this will have to wait for a rewrite in 1.1.x.
JMarc
