On Wed, Nov 08, 2000 at 10:41:41AM +0100, Sven Wischnowsky wrote: > > Bart Schaefer wrote: > > > On Nov 1, 10:41am, Sven Wischnowsky wrote: > > } > > } Here's the second version, still not-to-be-committed. > > > > Of course, the question is, does this actually fix Thomas's crash? > > I've seen Thomas' reply. > > But: is this really the question? Without such a trap-handling delay > and with the code not protecting critical code sections as it is now > (without the patch), crashes like these can always happen. And the > code is full of critical sections because there are many, many places > where we access global data structures. And lots of people will do funny things in their .zshrc and see occassional crashes that nobody can explain. Uhm. > However, the patch is so deep in the guts of zsh that I hesitate to > decide if it should be committed, especially if Bart says things like > the above ;-). I've been using it on my laptop ever since I posted it > and didn't have any problems but I don't use TRAPALRM(), so that means > almost nothing (but Peter and I made sure the trap-tests still work > correctly). Hm. Collecting patches before recompiling etc, lots of work to do before testing. Anybody to send me a full tar-ball with this patch applied? Perhaps I can start testing this on Saturday or such... > Anyway, Peter has the newest version of this patch, together with his > trap-changes. So, if this patch will be committed, it's Peter's part to do so? :) > Bye > Sven Ciao, Thomas -- Thomas Köhler Email: jean-luc@picard.franken.de | LCARS - Linux <>< WWW: http://jeanluc-picard.de | for Computers IRC: jeanluc | on All Real PGP public key available from Homepage! | Starships