Re: History bug still present in 3.0.3-test5

["Bart Schaefer" <schaefer@candle.brasslantern.com>]

On May 10, 11:14pm, Zoltan Hidvegi wrote:
} Subject: Re: History bug still present in 3.0.3-test5
}
} > 	xterm -e zsh -l
} > 
} > and then use the window manager to kill the xterm.  The $HISTFILE file will
} > be truncated to zero size.
} 
} I cannot reproduce this Linux

I'm running my own compile of 2.0.28, dropped into a RedHat 4.0 installation,
on a 100MHz Pentium with SCSI drives.  Just in case you think that matters.

} but from the backtrace you sent earlier it
} seems that the problem is that first zle notices that the input is lost and
} calls zexit(), and while zexit is saving the history, zsh receives the HUP
} signal.  It seems to be a kernel or xterm bug, since HUP should really come
} before the input is lost.  Here is the fix.

I applied this patch and tried the xterm -e test above, and once again got
a truncated-to-zero history file.  So whatever is going on isn't related
to this patch.  And it happens with `zsh -f -l' too, so it's not some odd
thing I'm doing.

Here's a more complete stack trace.  3.0.3-test5 with the patch from your
message applied.  I only see zexit in there once, called from handler(),
so I don't think zsh has seen the EOF yet.

(gdb) where
#0  0x8061120 in savehistfile (s=0x80efee0 "/home/schaefer/.zhistory", err=1, 
    app=0) at ../../zsh-3.0.3-test5/Src/hist.c:1433
#1  0x8050a93 in zexit (val=1, from_signal=1)
    at ../../zsh-3.0.3-test5/Src/builtin.c:4640
#2  0x8070093 in handler (sig=1) at ../../zsh-3.0.3-test5/Src/signals.c:470
#3  0xbffff658 in ?? ()
#4  0x807dc34 in getkey (keytmout=0)
    at ../../zsh-3.0.3-test5/Src/zle_main.c:284
#5  0x807e505 in getkeycmd () at ../../zsh-3.0.3-test5/Src/zle_main.c:520
#6  0x807e153 in zleread (lp=0x80e67d0 "%m[%h] ", rp=0x80e67e0 "%n")
    at ../../zsh-3.0.3-test5/Src/zle_main.c:430
#7  0x8062ed7 in inputline () at ../../zsh-3.0.3-test5/Src/input.c:228
#8  0x8062df5 in ingetc () at ../../zsh-3.0.3-test5/Src/input.c:184
#9  0x805ec79 in hgetc () at ../../zsh-3.0.3-test5/Src/hist.c:118
#10 0x8065331 in gettok () at ../../zsh-3.0.3-test5/Src/lex.c:361
#11 0x8064ea9 in yylex () at ../../zsh-3.0.3-test5/Src/lex.c:176
#12 0x806d99c in parse_event () at ../../zsh-3.0.3-test5/Src/parse.c:59
#13 0x80616ea in loop (toplevel=1) at ../../zsh-3.0.3-test5/Src/init.c:117
#14 0x8061607 in main (argc=2, argv=0xbffff954)
    at ../../zsh-3.0.3-test5/Src/init.c:77
#15 0x80480eb in _start ()
(gdb) p t
$1 = 0x0
(gdb) p ev
5

[There were only 4 events in the history.  Starting from an empty history,
I typed exactly 4 commands before killing the xterm.  Looks like it's
trying to save an event that hasn't happened yet?]


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