On Mon, Jul 18, 2005 at 12:49:00PM +0400, Alexey Tourbin wrote:
> Recent zsh snashot hangs and fails to produce a prompt.
> When started as 'zsh -x', the following lines are executed
> right before the hang occures:
> 
> +compdump:95> read -rA _d_line
> +compdump:101> print
> +compdump:106> _d_als=+compdump:1> typeset +fm '_*'

[test@solemn test]$ zsh -cx 'HOSTNAME=`/bin/hostname`'
+/etc/zshenv:9> [ -f /etc/profile.d/tmpdir.sh ']'
+/etc/zshenv:9> . /etc/profile.d/tmpdir.sh
+/etc/profile.d/tmpdir.sh:3> [ -z /home/test/tmp ']'
+/etc/profile.d/tmpdir.sh:3> [ ! -d /home/test/tmp ']'
+/etc/zshenv:10> TMPPREFIX=/home/test/tmp/zsh
+zsh:1> HOSTNAME=+zsh:1> /bin/hostname
[... zsh hangs ...]

This is 20050716 snapshot, the last change was made in
Completion/Unix/Command/_python.

I had no such problem with 20050609 snapshot.