Re: suspend while loop.

[Sven Wischnowsky <wischnow@informatik.hu-berlin.de>]

Bart Schaefer wrote:

> On May 16, 12:02pm, Bart Schaefer wrote:
> } Subject: Re: suspend while loop.
> }
> } > Z(4):akr@serein% Src/zsh -f
> } > serein% cat |while read line; do echo $line; done
> } > <C-z>
> } > 
> } > `cat' is suspended.  But zsh wait something yet...
> } 
> } I think you can't break out of `read' with ^Z.  Try it without the cat|
> } and you'll find you can't suspend the loop.
> 
> Does anyone have any insights on this?  I was about to announce 3.0.8,
> but discovered that this loop is not suspendable there either.  I don't
> have much time for debugging it myself this week ...
> 
> If it doesn't appear to be easily fixed, I'm going to go ahead and put
> 3.0.8 out anyway.

I can't see how we could (really) make in suspendible. For that we
would need to be able to get out of the read, back to the place where
we can create the sub-shell for the loop. Then, on continuing, we
would need to be able to go into the same read and continue with
it. But the first thing can only be done by returing from the
read. Everyone can easily test this by adding child_unblock() before
the read() in zread() and child_unblock()s after it. This makes the
loop suspendible, but when it is continued, the loop exits immediately
because the read that was suspended returned non-zero.

Depending on personal taste it is either ugly that the cat gets
suspended or that we can't ^C out of the loop after the ^Z.

I've no idea how to solve this.

Bye
 Sven


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Sven Wischnowsky                         wischnow@informatik.hu-berlin.de