From: Andrew Janke <floss@apjanke.net>
To: Zsh hackers list <zsh-workers@zsh.org>
Subject: zcurses input timeout and window resizing
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2015 05:41:15 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <560BAE3B.5050409@apjanke.net> (raw)
Hi, Zsh folks,
I'm running in to an issue with the interaction between "zcurses
timeout"/"zcurses input" and terminal window resizing. On OS X, it seems
that if you resize a window while waiting on a "zcurses input", the
timeout will effectively be ignored, and "zcurses input" will block
until actual input is received.
Sounds like this was a known possible issue. The Src/Modules/curses.c
file has a comment due to it interacting poorly with unspecified
behavior of getch wrt handled signals.
https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh/blob/6ff0628182ac74bbf22dc02edcc9a148f12767db/Src/Modules/curses.c#L1072-L1104
* There remains a potential bug here in that, if the caller has set
* a timeout for the read [see zccmd_timeout()] the countdown is very
* likely restarted on every call to wgetch(), so an interrupted call
* might wait much longer than desired.
I think I'm actually running in to that potential bug here on Mac OS X
10.9.5.
Test code:
#!/bin/zsh
# test_zcurses_resize.zsh
#
# Test how window resizing interacts with zcurses
zmodload zsh/curses
zcurses init
zcurses timeout stdscr 1000
logfile=test_zcurses_resize.log
rm -f $logfile
while (( 1 )); do
printf "%4s: %s %s stty: %s\n" $SECONDS $LINES $COLUMNS "$(stty
size)" >>$logfile
zcurses input stdscr key keypad mouse
printf "%4s: input received: \$?=%s k='%s' kp='%s' m='%s'\n" \
$SECONDS $? "$key" "$keypad" "$mouse" >>$logfile
done
# end test_zcurses_resize.zsh
"watch -n 0.5 tail -15 test_zcurses_resize.log" to see results.
When I run it on OS X (in iTerm2 or Terminal.app) and resize the window,
it stops producing new output indefinitely, until I actually hit a key
or do mouse input. On Debian Linux 8, it still works after the resize,
with the "zcurses input" timing out as expected. Tested on both zsh
5.0.2 and 5.1.1.
Any known workarounds to this? Maybe it's dependent on the version of
curses? My OS X zsh is linked against libncurses.5.4.dylib; the Debian
one against libncursesw.so.5.
The "tetriscurses" example program seems to stay live through window
sizes on the same OS X system, and I can't figure out what it's doing
differently to keep the timeout working through window resizes.
Cheers,
Andrew
next reply other threads:[~2015-09-30 9:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-09-30 9:41 Andrew Janke [this message]
2015-09-30 10:49 ` Andrew Janke
2015-09-30 13:34 ` Jun T.
2015-09-30 16:41 ` Andrew Janke
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