From: Peter Stephenson <pws@csr.com>
To: zsh-workers@sunsite.dk
Subject: Re: zsh 4.3.4 crashes in prompt-related code under Mac OS X
Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2007 12:58:52 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200710231158.l9NBwq2E019279@news01.csr.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071023115416.GN3715@prunille.vinc17.org>
Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> On 2007-10-22 11:10:55 +0100, Peter Stephenson wrote:
> > Or maybe "shout" has got into some unusable state. I suppose it's not
> > unreasonable to test it's not NULL, although it's rather paranoid.
>
> I don't know what is "shout", but I recall that the bug occurs only
> after some command (ssh, called via a zsh wrapper function) has run
> for several days. So, the environment had the time to change...
"shout" is the file used by the shell for interactive I/O. It can't be
NULL globally since nothing interactive would work, but I'm wondering if
the prompt is being set up in a funny state in this case.
> I've reinstalled zsh with the patch.
I don't have that much hope, but it's worth trying.
> zsh 4.3.4 doesn't have !use_exit_printed, so I modified the above
> lines in the following way:
Should be fine.
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Peter Stephenson <pws@csr.com> Software Engineer
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-10-23 11:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-08-30 8:57 Vincent Lefevre
2007-08-30 15:12 ` Peter Stephenson
2007-10-20 2:54 ` Vincent Lefevre
2007-10-22 10:10 ` Peter Stephenson
2007-10-23 11:54 ` Vincent Lefevre
2007-10-23 11:58 ` Peter Stephenson [this message]
2007-11-01 14:23 ` Vincent Lefevre
2007-11-05 14:43 ` Peter Stephenson
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