From: P.Stephenson@swansea.ac.uk
To: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu (Zsh hackers list)
Subject: Re: Serious HP-UX problem ! Shell hangs !
Date: Fri, 07 Jul 95 12:30:35 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <22303.9507071130@pyro.swan.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: "coleman@math.gatech.edu"'s message of "Thu, 06 Jul 95 18:45:27 EDT." <9507062245.AA18180@redwood.skiles.gatech.edu>
coleman@math.gatech.edu wrote:
> > > This is a *serious* HP-UX 9 problem of the zsh, which it didn't have
> > > with previous versions (not with beta6 at least).
> > >
> > > Situation :
> > >
> > > $ sleep 10 (any process will do)
> > > [Ctrl-Z]
> > > zsh: 16763 suspended sleep 10
> > > $ sleep 5 (any process)
> > > *hang*
> >
> > This is a quite old problem (it is present at least since beta6). It is OS
> > dependent, and it is also present on ULTRIX. As I remember it appeared afte
> r
> > Richard rewrote the signals code. He promised to fix that.
>
> I don't have any HP or DEC machines, so it is difficult for me to
> track down. Does this still happen if you change POSIX_SIGNALS to
> BSD_SIGNALS? It might be bugs in the Posix code for these machines.
> If this fixes it, I can just force configure to use BSD signals on
> these machines.
I can't reproduce this bug at all for Ultrix 4.3, even with
POSIX_SIGNALS.
--
Peter Stephenson <P.Stephenson@swansea.ac.uk> Tel: +44 1792 205678 extn. 4461
WWW: http://python.swan.ac.uk/~pypeters/ Fax: +44 1792 295324
Department of Physics, University of Wales, Swansea,
Singleton Park, Swansea, SA2 8PP, U.K.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1995-07-07 11:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1995-07-05 18:38 Felix von Leitner
1995-07-06 19:04 ` Zoltan Hidvegi
1995-07-06 22:45 ` Richard Coleman
1995-07-07 11:30 ` P.Stephenson [this message]
1995-07-07 13:58 ` chen
1995-07-07 20:05 ` Zoltan Hidvegi
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