From: Richard Coleman <coleman@math.gatech.edu>
To: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu
Subject: Re: Serious HP-UX problem ! Shell hangs !
Date: Thu, 06 Jul 1995 18:45:27 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <9507062245.AA18180@redwood.skiles.gatech.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 06 Jul 1995 20:04:04 BST." <9507061805.AA06920@turan.elte.hu>
> > 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.
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.
rc
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1995-07-06 22:50 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 [this message]
1995-07-07 11:30 ` P.Stephenson
1995-07-07 13:58 ` chen
1995-07-07 20:05 ` Zoltan Hidvegi
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