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From: Dominik Vogt <dominik.vogt@gmx.de>
To: Zsh Users <zsh-users@zsh.org>
Subject: Frozen command substitution
Date: Sat, 11 Feb 2023 10:41:07 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Y+dioiiAoWXaSGqw@localhost> (raw)

I have two long running scripts that do complex interaction with
the web browser, say "foo" which calls the subordinate script
"bar".  The browser crashes once in a while and is restarted
automatically by some other script.  Sometimes when this happens,
foo freezes in a call of bar and won't wake up anymore when bar
terminates:

-- foo --
while true; do
	some-func
	test some-condition && break
done

some-func () {
	while true; do
		R="$(bar ssome arguments)"  <------- hangs in this line
		test some condition && return 0
	done
}
-- foo --

-- bar --
# some long-running loop
# ...

return 0
-- bar --

Ciao

Dominik ^_^  ^_^

--

So, foo calls bar in a loop.  While bar is running, the browser is
restarted.  bar detects this, finishes and exits with the "return
0".  However, foo does not continue with the line after the
command substitution.  A "ctrl-z" foollowed by "fg" does not help.
Sending it SIGUSR1 (which has a trap installed) wakes it up again.
In the process list:

  $ pstree -a
  ...
  <terminal>-+-zsh-+-foo
                   |-tee
                   +-zsh

(The whole stuff is calles with
"while true; do foo 2>&1 | tee foo.out; done".)  /proc/<pid>/status says:

  $ cat /proc/<pid>/status
  ...
  State:  S (sleeping)
  Tgid:   13030
  Ngid:   0
  Pid:    13030
  PPid:   24927
  ...

foo has a trap for "HUP" installed, and that's being called when
when I type "killall -HUP foo", so the shell is not dead.  "ps"
lists the processes' status as "S+".

Dominik Vogt


             reply	other threads:[~2023-02-11  9:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-02-11  9:41 Dominik Vogt [this message]
2023-02-11 17:02 ` Dominik Vogt
2023-02-11 17:36   ` Bart Schaefer
2023-02-11 20:28     ` Dominik Vogt

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