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Subject: zpty read hangs (RE: nslookup (function) problem)
Date: Fri, 5 May 2000 12:27:09 +0400
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> >
> > Unfortunately, function nslookup hangs completely in this case:
> >
> > bor@itsrm2% autoload -U nslookup
> > bor@itsrm2% nslookup
> > Default Server:  mowd017a.mow.siemens.ru
> > Address:  139.24.18.1
> >
> > > ?
> > nothing comes here; it habgs; it is no more possible to
> kill it with ^C,
> > ^\ or ^Z.
>


I want to stress it - in this case zsh *hangs* - there is no way to
break out of 'zpty -r'. That is unacceptable, even more so for
interactive shell.

-andrej