Re: zsh-3.0.3: another problem in Src/jobs.c

Re: zsh-3.0.3: another problem in Src/jobs.c

[SUZUKI Hisao]

K"os"on"om szepen, Zoltan ur es zsh-workers!

Thank you for releasing the debugged zsh so promptly.  I got
zsh-3.0.4.tar.gz just now.  I see it works almost finely and
Src/jobs.c has changed in lines ca 157 from

	if (shout && !ttyfrozen && !jn->stty_in_env)
	     gettyinfo(&shttyinfo);
to
	if (shout && !ttyfrozen && !jn->stty_in_env &&
	    job == thisjob && !somestopped)
	    gettyinfo(&shttyinfo);

Yes, it is substantially the same patch as that of my message
<9706192332.AA00517@oz.fantasy.otsl.oki.co.jp> sent you on June
20 (or June 19 in GMT).  You have made a right choice at last
for the present implementation for the time being! (I knock on
wood here :-)

However, I am afraid I must say something still goes wrong.  Try
this:
	% emacs -nw &
	% fg
	[type ^X^C to terminate the emacs]
	% stty

	[Note: this is not artificial.  When you forget to set
	 DISPLAY, you will be put in the same situation.]

As you see, the tty setting remains sane as long as you suspend
or continue the emacs job.  Once you terminate the job, the tty
setting goes bad.

If solely my patch of June 20 had applied, then this is not
happend when you _once_ suspend the "fg"ed emacs job before
terminate it.  Now that you also changed Src/jobs.c from

	if (jn->stty_in_env && !jn->ty) {
	    jn->ty = (struct ttyinfo *) zalloc(sizeof(struct ttyinfo));
to
	if (shout && job == thisjob) {
	    if (!jn->ty)
		jn->ty = (struct ttyinfo *) zalloc(sizeof(struct ttyinfo));

in lines 140-142, the problem was revealed.  In zsh-3.0.4, it
happens whether you have once suspended the job or not.

--
Hisao Suzuki <suzuki@otsl.oki.co.jp>

Re: zsh-3.0.3: another problem in Src/jobs.c

[Zoltan Hidvegi]

> 20 (or June 19 in GMT).  You have made a right choice at last
> for the present implementation for the time being! (I knock on
> wood here :-)
> 
> However, I am afraid I must say something still goes wrong.  Try
> this:
> 	% emacs -nw &
> 	% fg
> 	[type ^X^C to terminate the emacs]
> 	% stty
> 
> 	[Note: this is not artificial.  When you forget to set
> 	 DISPLAY, you will be put in the same situation.]
> 
> As you see, the tty setting remains sane as long as you suspend
> or continue the emacs job.  Once you terminate the job, the tty
> setting goes bad.
> 
> If solely my patch of June 20 had applied, then this is not
> happend when you _once_ suspend the "fg"ed emacs job before
> terminate it.  Now that you also changed Src/jobs.c from

But it did happed when you did not suspend the fg'ed job, even with your
patch, right?

> 
> 	if (jn->stty_in_env && !jn->ty) {
> 	    jn->ty = (struct ttyinfo *) zalloc(sizeof(struct ttyinfo));
> to
> 	if (shout && job == thisjob) {
> 	    if (!jn->ty)
> 		jn->ty = (struct ttyinfo *) zalloc(sizeof(struct ttyinfo));
> 
> in lines 140-142, the problem was revealed.  In zsh-3.0.4, it
> happens whether you have once suspended the job or not.

Still I think zsh is right here, and it is an emacs bug.  The problem is
emacs leaves the tty setting in a wrong state when it exits.  I do not
know how zsh can help here.  Note that ksh does the same, even worse,
since after this the ksh line editor becomes unusable, and I had to kill
ksh from an other terminal.

Zoltan

Re: zsh-3.0.3: another problem in Src/jobs.c

[SUZUKI Hisao]

>> 	% emacs -nw &
>> 	% fg
>> 	[type ^X^C to terminate the emacs]
>> 	% stty
>> 
>> 	[Note: this is not artificial.  When you forget to set
>> 	 DISPLAY, you will be put in the same situation.]
[snip]
>> If solely my patch of June 20 had applied, then this is not
>> happend when you _once_ suspend the "fg"ed emacs job before
>> terminate it.  Now that you also changed Src/jobs.c from
>
>But it did happed when you did not suspend the fg'ed job, even with your
>patch, right?

Yes, precisely.  However, suspending the fg'ed job was an _easy_
work around to do when you got into the situation.  In fact, I
and my colleagues had never noticed that problem before; we
usually suspend emacs of non x-window to switch the jobs.

>Still I think zsh is right here, and it is an emacs bug.  The problem is
>emacs leaves the tty setting in a wrong state when it exits.  I do not
>know how zsh can help here.  Note that ksh does the same, even worse,
>since after this the ksh line editor becomes unusable, and I had to kill
>ksh from an other terminal.

Well, try bash-1.14.7 or tcsh-6.06, please.  They get on well
with emacs.  It is regrettable that zsh does not.  In spite of
its _excellent_ line-editing facility and other useful features,
this particular problem may make zsh _notorious_ as a shell that
is free and powerful but cannot work well even with emacs...

Perhaps, IMHO, the better way to do is: 

(1) For zsh-3.0.X, to take a conservative patch as mine for the
    time being, and note the problem and works around (ttyctl,
    STTY, or job suspending) in Etc/BUGS.  Please do not forget
    that zsh-3.0.X is being used for _daily_ use by many users
    all over the world.

(2) For zsh-3.1.X, to devise an innovation.  I think it is best
    to make a third option for ttyctl which let the shell
    ignore stty changes under some unusual situations (as bash
    does).  And it will be nice if the new option is default.

--
Hisao Suzuki <suzuki@otsl.oki.co.jp>

Re: zsh-3.0.3: another problem in Src/jobs.c

[Zoltan Hidvegi]

> >> 	% emacs -nw &
> >> 	% fg
> >> 	[type ^X^C to terminate the emacs]
> >> 	% stty
> >> 
> >> 	[Note: this is not artificial.  When you forget to set
> >> 	 DISPLAY, you will be put in the same situation.]

OK, here is an other patch.  When a process started in the background in
the first place, zsh will ignore the tty settings it leaves after it
exits, even if it is brought to the foreground afterwards.

This should fix the emacs problem, and even the suspend/fg workaround
will be unnecessary.

Zoltan


*** Src/zsh.h	1997/06/05 04:44:57	3.1.3.0
--- Src/zsh.h	1997/05/04 05:18:36
***************
*** 592,597 ****
--- 592,599 ----
  #define STAT_SUPERJOB	(1<<7)	/* job has a subjob                     */
  #define STAT_SUBJOB	(1<<8)	/* job is a subjob                      */
  #define STAT_CURSH	(1<<9)	/* last command is in current shell     */
+ #define STAT_NOSTTY	(1<<10)	/* the tty settings are not inherited   */
+ 				/* from this job when it exits.         */
  
  #define SP_RUNNING -1		/* fake status for jobs currently running */
  
*** Src/exec.c	1997/06/05 04:44:57	3.1.3.0
--- Src/exec.c	1997/06/24 02:42:47
***************
*** 654,659 ****
--- 654,660 ----
      pline_level--;
      if (how & Z_ASYNC) {
  	lastwj = newjob;
+ 	jobtab[thisjob].stat |= STAT_NOSTTY;
  	if (l->flags & PFLAG_COPROC)
  	    zclose(ipipe[1]);
  	if (how & Z_DISOWN) {
*** Src/jobs.c	1997/06/22 23:08:08	3.1.3.4
--- Src/jobs.c	1997/06/24 02:44:11
***************
*** 157,163 ****
      }
  
      if (shout && !ttyfrozen && !jn->stty_in_env &&
! 	job == thisjob && !somestopped)
  	gettyinfo(&shttyinfo);
  
      if (isset(MONITOR)) {
--- 157,163 ----
      }
  
      if (shout && !ttyfrozen && !jn->stty_in_env &&
! 	job == thisjob && !somestopped && !(jn->stat & STAT_NOSTTY))
  	gettyinfo(&shttyinfo);
  
      if (isset(MONITOR)) {

Re: zsh-3.0.3: another problem in Src/jobs.c

[SUZUKI Hisao]

>OK, here is an other patch.  When a process started in the background in
>the first place, zsh will ignore the tty settings it leaves after it
>exits, even if it is brought to the foreground afterwards.
>
>This should fix the emacs problem, and even the suspend/fg workaround
>will be unnecessary.

Thank you!  Now zsh works finely.  Indeed It is the better patch
for the present practically.

But it is somewhat incomplete.  Try this:

	% emacs -nw
	[type ^Z to suspend emacs]
	% bg
	% fg
	[type ^X^C to terminate emacs]

You will see that the bg command needs a fix, too.  The
following is it:

*** zsh-3.0.4/Src/builtin.c~	Mon Jun 23 14:12:46 1997
--- zsh-3.0.4/Src/builtin.c	Tue Jun 24 19:56:35 1997
***************
*** 601,606 ****
--- 601,607 ----
  	case BIN_FG:
  	case BIN_BG:
  	case BIN_WAIT:
+ 	    if (func == BIN_BG) jobtab[job].stat |= STAT_NOSTTY;
  	    if ((stopped = (jobtab[job].stat & STAT_STOPPED)))
  		makerunning(jobtab + job);
  	    else if (func == BIN_BG) {


By the way, bash, tcsh and the old zsh-2.3.1 do well on the
above example, too.  They seem free from the emacs problem
entirely.  Moreover, zsh-2.3.1 does not ignore the stty changes
done by a job started in the background.  In spite of its many
bugs and shortcomings, the old zsh-2.3.1 seems very robust and
good in this particular respect... *sigh*

--
Hisao Suzuki <suzuki@otsl.oki.co.jp>

Re: zsh-3.0.3: another problem in Src/jobs.c

[SUZUKI Hisao]

>Having to change the zsh code to compensate for a bug in Emacs strikes
>me as the "Wrong Thing (tm)".  Is there no way to get Emacs to change?

No, absolutely.  In fact, it is not the problem solely of the
Emacs.  The good old (:-) editor, "vi", also causes the same
phenomenon (with zsh 3.0.4 in Linux 2.0, Solaris 2.5, and SunOS
4.1).

	% vi &
	% fg
	:q

IMHO, the problem is inherent in Un*x.

--
Hisao Suzuki <suzuki@otsl.oki.co.jp>

Re: zsh-3.0.3: another problem in Src/jobs.c

[Bart Schaefer]

On Jun 25, 10:10am, SUZUKI Hisao wrote:
} Subject: Re: zsh-3.0.3: another problem in Src/jobs.c
}
} IMHO, the problem is inherent in Un*x.

That's a ridiculous statement.  All the necessary tools are available to
get it right; I've written programs that do.  It's just that most don't,
because they're not expecting to ever be backgrounded; so they don't do
the necessary checks for process groups and SIGTTIN/TTOU handling.  In
vi's case, that's most likely because it was originally written before
job-control shells even existed.  (If you really mean elvis or vim or
some such, they have no excuse at all.)

However, you're right that changing zsh is the best idea.  Tty management
is complicated, and shells that do their own sophisticated editing and
display management make it more so.  There's always going to be somebody
too lazy or inexperienced to make his code clean up after itself properly,
so it behooves zsh to make sure the terminal is functional when it wants
to use it.

-- 
Bart Schaefer                                 Brass Lantern Enterprises
http://www.well.com/user/barts        http://www.nbn.com/people/lantern

zsh-3.0.3: another problem in Src/jobs.c

[SUZUKI Hisao]

Jo napot kivanok!
(...or "Jo reggelt kivanok")

	I reported a problem of zsh-3.0.3/Src/jobs.c by e-mail
<9706180710.AA10798@oz.fantasy.otsl.oki.co.jp> yesterday.  Now I
found another problem.  It is like this:

	ares:~% stty
	speed 9600 baud; line = 0;
	intr = ^G; erase = ^H;
	-brkint ixoff -imaxbel
	-iexten -echoctl
	ares:~% emacs -nw &
	[1] 2537
	ares:~% 
	[1]  + suspended (tty output)  emacs -nw
	ares:~% fg
	[1]  + continued  emacs -nw
	
	zsh: suspended  emacs -nw
	ares:~% stty
	speed 9600 baud; line = 0;
	intr = ^G; quit = <undef>; erase = ^H; susp = <undef>; lnext = <undef>;
	flush = <undef>;
	-brkint inlcr ixoff -imaxbel
	-iexten -echoctl

This is similar to what I reported yesterday in that the tty
setting is modified unexpectedly by a background job.  Really
they are the same _annoying_ problem of the same cause in a
sense.
	Again, for the time being, I made a hack to fix it
rather in a clean way (at least I think so :-) this time.  I
hope the problem will be fixed soon in any way.

----------------------------------------------------------------
*** zsh-3.0.3/Src/jobs.c.ORIG	Tue Jun  3 05:11:27 1997
--- zsh-3.0.3/Src/jobs.c	Thu Jun 19 02:35:37 1997
***************
*** 121,135 ****
      int job;
      int val = 0, status = 0;
      int somestopped = 0, inforeground = 0;
  
      for (pn = jn->procs; pn; pn = pn->next) {
  	if (pn->status == SP_RUNNING)      /* some processes in this job are running       */
  	    return;                        /* so no need to update job table entry         */
  	if (WIFSTOPPED(pn->status))        /* some processes are stopped                   */
  	    somestopped = 1;               /* so job is not done, but entry needs updating */
! 	if (!pn->next)                     /* last job in pipeline determines exit status  */
  	    val = (WIFSIGNALED(pn->status)) ? 0200 | WTERMSIG(pn->status) :
  		WEXITSTATUS(pn->status);
  	if (pn->pid == jn->gleader)        /* if this process is process group leader      */
  	    status = pn->status;
      }
--- 121,140 ----
      int job;
      int val = 0, status = 0;
      int somestopped = 0, inforeground = 0;
+     pid_t pgrp = -1;
+     int is_foreground = 0;	/* is this job in the foreground actually? */
+     int is_stopped = 0;		/* is this job stopped? */
  
      for (pn = jn->procs; pn; pn = pn->next) {
  	if (pn->status == SP_RUNNING)      /* some processes in this job are running       */
  	    return;                        /* so no need to update job table entry         */
  	if (WIFSTOPPED(pn->status))        /* some processes are stopped                   */
  	    somestopped = 1;               /* so job is not done, but entry needs updating */
! 	if (!pn->next) {  /* last job in pipeline determines exit status  */
  	    val = (WIFSIGNALED(pn->status)) ? 0200 | WTERMSIG(pn->status) :
  		WEXITSTATUS(pn->status);
+ 	    is_stopped = WIFSTOPPED(pn->status);
+ 	}
  	if (pn->pid == jn->gleader)        /* if this process is process group leader      */
  	    status = pn->status;
      }
***************
*** 154,168 ****
  	}
      }
  
!     if (shout && !ttyfrozen && !jn->stty_in_env)
! 	gettyinfo(&shttyinfo);
! 
      if (isset(MONITOR)) {
! 	pid_t pgrp = gettygrp();           /* get process group of tty      */
! 
  	/* is this job in the foreground of an interactive shell? */
! 	if (mypgrp != pgrp && inforeground &&
! 	    (jn->gleader == pgrp || (pgrp > 1 && kill(-pgrp, 0) == -1))) {
  	    attachtty(mypgrp);
  	    adjustwinsize();   /* check window size and adjust if necessary */
  	}
--- 159,179 ----
  	}
      }
  
!     if (shout && !ttyfrozen && !jn->stty_in_env && !is_stopped) {
! 	pgrp = gettygrp();	/* get process group of tty */
! 	is_foreground = (jn->gleader == pgrp ||
! 			 (pgrp > 1 && kill(-pgrp, 0) == -1));
! 	if (is_foreground)
! 	    gettyinfo(&shttyinfo);
!     }
      if (isset(MONITOR)) {
! 	if (pgrp == -1) {
! 	    pgrp = gettygrp();
! 	    is_foreground = (jn->gleader == pgrp ||
! 			     (pgrp > 1 && kill(-pgrp, 0) == -1));
! 	}
  	/* is this job in the foreground of an interactive shell? */
! 	if (mypgrp != pgrp && inforeground && is_foreground) {
  	    attachtty(mypgrp);
  	    adjustwinsize();   /* check window size and adjust if necessary */
  	}
----------------------------------------------------------------

Regards,

Hisao Suzuki <suzuki@otsl.oki.co.jp>

Re: zsh-3.0.3: another problem in Src/jobs.c

[Zoltan Hidvegi]

> Jo napot kivanok!
> (...or "Jo reggelt kivanok")

Just for those, who do not speak Hungarian, these are just greetings
meaning good day and good morning :-).  Where did you learn these (I'm
just curious)?

> 	I reported a problem of zsh-3.0.3/Src/jobs.c by e-mail
> <9706180710.AA10798@oz.fantasy.otsl.oki.co.jp> yesterday.  Now I
> found another problem.  It is like this:

It seems that it is really a problem with your patch.  You perhaps missed
Peter's one-liner fix for the problem (you have to remove your patched before
that applies.

And I should apologize for the delay of zsh-3.0.4.  I have almost made a
release but then came two new fixes from Peter az Zefram.

Zoltan


Here is Peter's patch:

*** ./Src/jobs.c.old	Wed Jun  4 17:51:43 1997
--- ./Src/jobs.c	Wed Jun  4 17:53:39 1997
***************
*** 155,161 ****
  	}
      }
  
!     if (shout && !ttyfrozen && !jn->stty_in_env)
  	gettyinfo(&shttyinfo);
  
      if (isset(MONITOR)) {
--- 155,161 ----
  	}
      }
  
!     if (shout && !ttyfrozen && !jn->stty_in_env && inforeground)
  	gettyinfo(&shttyinfo);
  
      if (isset(MONITOR)) {

Re: zsh-3.0.3: another problem in Src/jobs.c

[Andrei Tcherepanov]

Hi!

Seems this (Peter's ) patch not fix 100% problem, becouse after
applying it the same problem (stty and bakground jobs) still
happed rundomly or   after working some time;
I cannot catch the moment where my stty goes bad.
( all talks about 3.1.2 )

BTW. IMHO
This happed becouse from 3.1.1 to 3.1.2 was long time of programming
and not 100 users testing. may be need to produce alphas-betas 
more often with some (not 100) bug fix in it ? 


Zoltan Hidvegi wrote:
[snip]
> >       I reported a problem of zsh-3.0.3/Src/jobs.c by e-mail
> > <9706180710.AA10798@oz.fantasy.otsl.oki.co.jp> yesterday.  Now I
> > found another problem.  It is like this:
> 
> It seems that it is really a problem with your patch.  You perhaps missed
> Peter's one-liner fix for the problem (you have to remove your patched before
> that applies.
> 
> And I should apologize for the delay of zsh-3.0.4.  I have almost made a
> release but then came two new fixes from Peter az Zefram.
> 
> Zoltan
> 
> Here is Peter's patch:
[patch about inforeground removed]
-- 
Thanks,
  Andrei ( tandr@ptc.com )

Re: zsh-3.0.3: another problem in Src/jobs.c

[SUZUKI Hisao]

>> Jo napot kivanok!
>> (...or "Jo reggelt kivanok")
>
>Just for those, who do not speak Hungarian, these are just greetings
>meaning good day and good morning :-).  Where did you learn these (I'm
>just curious)?

I am an admirer of Kodaly and Bartok, who were both Hungarian
composers in (early) 20th century music, so I have been learning
Hungarian in hope of understanding their works thoroughly (and I
found it a very interesting language, which somewhat resembles
Japanese in several respects...)

By the way,

[snip]
>Here is Peter's patch:
>
>*** ./Src/jobs.c.old	Wed Jun  4 17:51:43 1997
>--- ./Src/jobs.c	Wed Jun  4 17:53:39 1997
[snip]
>!     if (shout && !ttyfrozen && !jn->stty_in_env && inforeground)
>  	gettyinfo(&shttyinfo);
[snip]

Aha!  A simple and elegant patch!  I am slightly worried since
it does not check the process group, but actually it seems to be
working very well.

However, I noticed a little bug (or, at least, a singular
behavior) just now.  The variable "inforeground" referred in the
patch will not be set true if the last command in a pipeline is
in the current shell.  Hence, though it is artificial,

	% stty erase ^H | :

has no effect since the last command is a shell builtin ":",
whereas

	% stty erase ^H | cat

will modify the tty setting since the last command is "cat".

I do not think whether the last command is in the shell or not
should be relevant in this case.  The following patch would be
better:

----------------------------------------------------------------
*** zsh-3.0.3/Src/jobs.c.ORIG	Tue Jun  3 05:11:27 1997
--- zsh-3.0.3/Src/jobs.c	Thu Jun 19 16:37:42 1997
***************
*** 154,160 ****
  	}
      }
  
!     if (shout && !ttyfrozen && !jn->stty_in_env)
  	gettyinfo(&shttyinfo);
  
      if (isset(MONITOR)) {
--- 154,160 ----
  	}
      }
  
!     if (shout && !ttyfrozen && !jn->stty_in_env && !somestopped && job == thisjob)
  	gettyinfo(&shttyinfo);
  
      if (isset(MONITOR)) {
----------------------------------------------------------------

Regards,

Hisao Suzuki <suzuki@otsl.oki.co.jp>

Re: zsh-3.0.3: another problem in Src/jobs.c

[Zoltan Hidvegi]

SUZUKI Hisao wrote:
> [snip]
> >!     if (shout && !ttyfrozen && !jn->stty_in_env && inforeground)
> >  	gettyinfo(&shttyinfo);
> [snip]
> 
> Aha!  A simple and elegant patch!  I am slightly worried since
> it does not check the process group, but actually it seems to be
> working very well.

It should not depend on process groups.  This should work if MONITOR is
unset and on systems without job control.

> However, I noticed a little bug (or, at least, a singular
> behavior) just now.  The variable "inforeground" referred in the
> patch will not be set true if the last command in a pipeline is
> in the current shell.  Hence, though it is artificial,
> 
> 	% stty erase ^H | :
> 
> has no effect since the last command is a shell builtin ":",

Yes.  And actually, the tty settings should also be saved when a
foreground process is suspended.

The patch below is for the original zsh-3.1.2 and zsh-3.0.3, without
Hisao's patch.  I do hope that this covers all cases now.

Zoltan


*** Src/jobs.c	1997/06/03 03:52:01	3.1.2.7
--- Src/jobs.c	1997/06/20 03:37:03
***************
*** 138,145 ****
      job = jn - jobtab;   /* compute job number */
  
      if (somestopped) {
! 	if (jn->stty_in_env && !jn->ty) {
! 	    jn->ty = (struct ttyinfo *) zalloc(sizeof(struct ttyinfo));
  	    gettyinfo(jn->ty);
  	}
  	if (jn->stat & STAT_STOPPED)
--- 138,146 ----
      job = jn - jobtab;   /* compute job number */
  
      if (somestopped) {
! 	if ((jn->stty_in_env || ttyfrozen) && shout && job == thisjob) {
! 	    if (!jn->ty)
! 		jn->ty = (struct ttyinfo *) zalloc(sizeof(struct ttyinfo));
  	    gettyinfo(jn->ty);
  	}
  	if (jn->stat & STAT_STOPPED)
***************
*** 155,161 ****
  	}
      }
  
!     if (shout && !ttyfrozen && !jn->stty_in_env)
  	gettyinfo(&shttyinfo);
  
      if (isset(MONITOR)) {
--- 156,162 ----
  	}
      }
  
!     if (shout && !ttyfrozen && !jn->stty_in_env && job == thisjob)
  	gettyinfo(&shttyinfo);
  
      if (isset(MONITOR)) {

Re: zsh-3.0.3: another problem in Src/jobs.c

[SUZUKI Hisao]

>> in the current shell.  Hence, though it is artificial,
>> 
>> 	% stty erase ^H | :
>> 
>> has no effect since the last command is a shell builtin ":",
>
>Yes.  And actually, the tty settings should also be saved when a
>foreground process is suspended.
>
>The patch below is for the original zsh-3.1.2 and zsh-3.0.3, without
>Hisao's patch.  I do hope that this covers all cases now.

I am afraid it does not yet.  The tty setting goes bad after a
session like this:

	% emacs -nw &
	% fg
	[type ^Z to suspend the emacs]
	% stty

(see e-mail <9706190624.AA05850@oz.fantasy.otsl.oki.co.jp> from
me on Thu, 19 Jun 97 15:24:32 JST)

My patch of <9706192332.AA00517@oz.fantasy.otsl.oki.co.jp> works
fine in these cases.  Perhaps, for the present implementation,
the tty setting should _not_ be saved into "shttyinfo" when a
foreground process is stopped...

Regards,

Hisao Suzuki <suzuki@otsl.oki.co.jp>

Re: zsh-3.0.3: another problem in Src/jobs.c

[Peter Stephenson]

SUZUKI Hisao wrote:
> 	Again, for the time being, I made a hack to fix it
> rather in a clean way (at least I think so :-) this time.  I
> hope the problem will be fixed soon in any way.

This may well be more comprehensive than my fix.  I simply did the
minimum possible to remove the known problems at the time.  I can
believe a more sophisticated test is necessary.

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