From: Richard Coleman <coleman@math.gatech.edu>
To: "Seth M. LaForge" <sethml@ugcs.caltech.edu>
Cc: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu
Subject: Re: Fix for zsh signal problems with Slakware
Date: Sun, 15 Oct 1995 13:02:07 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <9510151702.AA12629@redwood.skiles.gatech.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 14 Oct 1995 00:57:26 PDT." <199510140757.AAA00927@envy.ugcs.caltech.edu>
> Under newer versions of slakware, zsh has the really annoying habit of
> totally freezing whenever a child process gets a signal. I've finally
> found the cause.
>
> The problem is that zsh tries to generate signames.h, a list of signal
> names, from /usr/include/linux/signal.h. In recent releases of
> slakware, /usr/include/linux/signal.h consists solely of
> #include <asm/signal.h>. Thus signames.h contains no signal names,
> and zsh runs off the end of the signal name array when trying to look
> up a signal name.
This problem has already been fixed in the baseline zsh sources and will
show up in the next beta release (whenever that is). I've given up
guessing when that will be.
Richard Coleman
coleman@math.gatech.edu
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1995-10-14 7:57 Seth M. LaForge
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