Stability issues with current Debian

[Hans Ronne]

>I just made a little patch to tell the Tcl event handler to please not
>do any blocking waits, because multithreaded Tcl may be spawning another
>thread to wait, and then that thread is sitting around indefinitely
>while other event handling requests pile up.... Just speculation; would
>have to look at the Tcl sources to verify this.

Heh, I also played around with the Tcl_DoOneEvent flags when I was trying
to fix the host-related crashes. Didn't do any good, but maybe it will this
time ...

>If this patch doesn't work, I have another idea which involves calling
>'Tcl_SetMaxBlockTime' with a 0 s, 0 us block time, after we instantiate
>the interpreter.

Sounds interesting. We should try it on the network bug, too.

Hans