From: Peter Stephenson <pws@csr.com>
To: Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com>
Cc: zsh-workers@sunsite.dk
Subject: Re: Quick way to lock up your shell
Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2008 17:52:42 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200812111752.mBBHqgEe008037@news01.csr.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <081211093531.ZM21666@torch.brasslantern.com>
Bart Schaefer wrote:
> schaefer<501> FOO==(cat)
>
> The shell is now hung forever waiting for a "cat" that will never exit,
Cats are like that. The think to do is to shut the door in its face;
then it will immediately decide it wants to leave after all and start
scratching at the door.
Hope this helps.
--
Peter Stephenson <pws@csr.com> Software Engineer
CSR PLC, Churchill House, Cambridge Business Park, Cowley Road
Cambridge, CB4 0WZ, UK Tel: +44 (0)1223 692070
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-12-11 17:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-12-11 17:35 Bart Schaefer
2008-12-11 17:52 ` Peter Stephenson [this message]
2008-12-11 18:10 ` Richard Hartmann
2008-12-11 20:42 ` Dan Nelson
2008-12-11 22:55 ` Richard Hartmann
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