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To: Jens Petersen <petersen@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: problem building zsh in background
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Jens Petersen <petersen@redhat.com> writes:

> Any comments on this bug report:
> <https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=102042>?
> 
> It seems easy to reproduce with both 4.0.7 and 4.1.1: eg
> 
> % rm -rf zsh-4.0.7
> % tar tar jxf zsh-4.0.7.tar.bz2
> % cd zsh-4.0.7
> % ./configure &
> :
> :
> checking if kill(pid, 0) returns ESRCH correctly... yes
> checking if POSIX sigsuspend() works... yes
> checking if tcsetpgrp() actually works...
> [1]  + suspended (tty output)  ./configure
> 
> 
> In the above report Roland McGrath comments "The zsh
> configure script runs a program that does tcsetpgrp on fd 0
> (stdin), which is broken in multiple ways.  If the input
> were redirected then the test would give a false negative.
> Since the input is your terminal and the job is in the
> background, it rightly gets SIGTTOU for trying to perform
> tcsetpgrp.  The only way a test of this nature can be safe
> is if it's done on a specially created pty, e.g. in the
> child of a forkpty call, but using ptys is not fully
> portable so zsh is kind of stuck here."
> 
> Anyone looked into this before?

We were looking into it on the zsh-workers mailing list yesterday.

Check-out the thread at
http://www.zsh.org/mla/workers/2003/msg00895.html

Phil.