From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 8805 invoked from network); 28 Mar 2001 05:48:51 -0000 Received: from sunsite.dk (130.225.51.30) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 28 Mar 2001 05:48:51 -0000 Received: (qmail 20527 invoked by alias); 28 Mar 2001 05:48:44 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-workers-help@sunsite.dk; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes X-Seq: 13806 Received: (qmail 20516 invoked from network); 28 Mar 2001 05:48:44 -0000 From: "Bart Schaefer" Message-Id: <1010328054833.ZM14993@candle.brasslantern.com> Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2001 05:48:33 +0000 In-Reply-To: Comments: In reply to Ryan Richter "Re: zsh bug-hang on startup after exec" (Mar 25, 2:34pm) References: X-Mailer: Z-Mail (5.0.0 30July97) To: zsh-workers@sunsite.dk Subject: Re: zsh bug-hang on startup after exec MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii On Mar 25, 2:34pm, Ryan Richter wrote: } Subject: Re: zsh bug-hang on startup after exec } } Sorry, I lied about the bash version. While I do have that rpm } installed, I compiled a newer bash release from source since } then. From bash --version: GNU bash, version 2.03.0(1)-release } (i686-pc-linux-gnu) I just upgraded the OS on one of the machines at work, so I was able to set my shell to: GNU bash, version 2.03.8(1)-release (i386-redhat-linux-gnu) Then I put "exec /bin/zsh" in both .bashrc and .bash_profile (because for some reason, although the doc says that "all interactive shells" will read the ~/.bashrc file, login shells do not). I still wasn't able to reproduce the problem. However, it's bad form to have a potentially infinite loop in the shell startup. Zsh should probably just give up after either some number of loops or some length of time. Anyone have a suggestion? -- Bart Schaefer Brass Lantern Enterprises http://www.well.com/user/barts http://www.brasslantern.com Zsh: http://www.zsh.org | PHPerl Project: http://phperl.sourceforge.net