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Re:Lamest bug we ever encountered by AndyKelley on Sunday December 11, 2011 @01:27AM (#3339445)
Are you trying to explain how it's possible for some of the consoles to freeze but others not while talking to the same sleeping computer? If so, I did not understand your explanation.
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Re:Lamest bug we ever encountered by alexgartrell on Sunday December 11, 2011 @01:29AM (#3339447)
I believe socket writes don't block until you've filled the internal socket buffer, so it's likely that the unaffected machines simply hadn't done this yet.
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Re:Lamest bug we ever encountered by AndyKelley on Sunday December 11, 2011 @03:30PM (#3340981)
ah, there's the missing piece of information. Now I got it, thanks.
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Re:Lamest bug we ever encountered by radarsat1 on Sunday December 11, 2011 @12:37PM (#3340482)
It's just a hypothesis. Obviously I don't have enough information to know for sure.
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