From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 24678 invoked from network); 8 Nov 2000 10:47:57 -0000 Received: from sunsite.dk (HELO sunsite.auc.dk) (130.225.51.30) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 8 Nov 2000 10:47:57 -0000 Received: (qmail 5362 invoked by alias); 8 Nov 2000 10:47:40 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-workers-help@sunsite.auc.dk; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes X-Seq: 13134 Received: (qmail 5354 invoked from network); 8 Nov 2000 10:47:39 -0000 Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2000 11:33:34 +0100 From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Thomas_K=F6hler?= To: zsh-workers@sunsite.auc.dk Subject: Re: zsh-3.1.9-dev-6 crashes occassionally Message-ID: <20001108113334.A6870@picard.franken.de> Mail-Followup-To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Thomas_K=F6hler?= , zsh-workers@sunsite.auc.dk References: <200011080941.KAA21063@beta.informatik.hu-berlin.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="5mCyUwZo2JvN/JJP" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200011080941.KAA21063@beta.informatik.hu-berlin.de>; from wischnow@informatik.hu-berlin.de on Wed, Nov 08, 2000 at 10:41:41AM +0100 X-Operating-System: Linux picard 2.2.17 X-Editor: VIM - Vi IMproved 6.0l ALPHA http://www.vim.org/ X-IRC: tirc; Nick: jeanluc X-URL: http://jeanluc-picard.de/ --5mCyUwZo2JvN/JJP Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Nov 08, 2000 at 10:41:41AM +0100, Sven Wischnowsky wrote: >=20 > Bart Schaefer wrote: >=20 > > On Nov 1, 10:41am, Sven Wischnowsky wrote: > > }=20 > > } Here's the second version, still not-to-be-committed. > >=20 > > Of course, the question is, does this actually fix Thomas's crash? >=20 > I've seen Thomas' reply. >=20 > 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=20 > 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 --=20 Thomas K=F6hler 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 --5mCyUwZo2JvN/JJP Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE6CSv+TEYXWMJlHuYRAn2EAJsEPG0K5T659TSBNeL8TCH0FPmE3wCaA642 MfrY+RuJrD7rXJeecBCl5zg= =gxPf -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --5mCyUwZo2JvN/JJP--