anyone able to use lftp after today's updates?

[Satish Balay]

On Fri, 15 Oct 2004, Dave Jones wrote:

> On Fri, Oct 15, 2004 at 01:47:37PM -0500, Satish Balay wrote:
>  > > On Fri, Oct 15, 2004 at 12:14:58PM -0500, Satish Balay wrote:
>  > > > 
>  > > > I try 'lftp mirrors.kernel.org' - and it just sits there (without
>  > > > giving a 'lftp >' prompt)
>  > > > 
>  > > > But the cursor blinks wierdly. This happens when lftp is invoked in
>  > > > both xterm and gnome-terminal.  Anyone else see this?
>  > > 
>  > > Yup seing the same problem on the same version on x86_64, please bugzilla it,
>  > > yesterday's one was working.
>  > 
>  > Looks like its a kernel-624 issue. lftp behaves correctly on booting
>  > back to kernel-610.
>  > 
>  > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=135905
> 
> More fallout from the O_NONBLOCK kernel patch it seems.
> This thing is breaking things left and right, but from what
> we've seen so far, it seems the userspace is broken.
> 
> This is very likely going to be dropped for FC3 final.

Thanks for the info. I guess this one is a datapoint for one of the
userspace breakages. Will avoid kernel-624 for now.

Satish