From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from gatech.edu (gatech.edu [130.207.244.244]) by werple.mira.net.au (8.6.12/8.6.9) with SMTP id EAA02628 for ; Fri, 7 Jul 1995 04:10:17 +1000 Received: from math (math.skiles.gatech.edu) by gatech.edu with SMTP id AA12114 (5.65c/Gatech-10.0-IDA for ); Thu, 6 Jul 1995 14:09:58 -0400 Received: by math (5.x/SMI-SVR4) id AA09057; Thu, 6 Jul 1995 14:06:27 -0400 Resent-Date: Thu, 6 Jul 1995 20:04:04 +0100 (MET DST) Old-Return-Path: From: hzoli@cs.elte.hu (Zoltan Hidvegi) Message-Id: <9507061805.AA06920@turan.elte.hu> Subject: Re: Serious HP-UX problem ! Shell hangs ! To: leitner@inf.fu-berlin.de (Felix von Leitner) Date: Thu, 6 Jul 1995 20:04:04 +0100 (MET DST) In-Reply-To: from "Felix von Leitner" at Jul 5, 95 08:38:36 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL21] Content-Type: text Sender: hzoli@cs.elte.hu Resent-Message-Id: <"g4NtD.0.MD2.XO2_l"@math> Resent-From: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/161 X-Loop: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu Precedence: list Resent-Sender: zsh-workers-request@math.gatech.edu Felix von Leitner 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* > > Fiddling with gdb shows that we are hanging in sigsuspend(), which is > called exactly once: signals.c with POSIX_SIGNALS defined. 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 after Richard rewrote the signals code. He promised to fix that. Bye, Zoltan