From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 21524 invoked from network); 15 Feb 1999 16:19:13 -0000 Received: from sunsite.auc.dk (130.225.51.30) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 15 Feb 1999 16:19:13 -0000 Received: (qmail 152 invoked by alias); 15 Feb 1999 16:18:04 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-workers-help@sunsite.auc.dk; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes X-Seq: 5394 Received: (qmail 136 invoked from network); 15 Feb 1999 16:17:59 -0000 Message-Id: <9902151602.AA30646@ibmth.df.unipi.it> To: zsh-workers@sunsite.auc.dk (Zsh hackers list) Subject: Re: Terminal problem with linux-2.0.34 In-Reply-To: ""Larry P . Schrof""'s message of "Mon, 15 Feb 1999 09:20:59 NFT." <199902151522.KAA06190@po_box.cig.mot.com> Date: Mon, 15 Feb 1999 17:02:02 +0100 From: Peter Stephenson "Larry P . Schrof" wrote: > - Any time the user runs a program that makes a stat() call, the > shell hangs forever, until the user breaks out of it. Even after sending > the process, say ls -l, a signal, it takes awhile to get the shell prompt > back. Something this weird suggests zsh is tickling something in Linux, and also suggests the only way to find out what is just painfully to comment bits of code out until it goes away; it's probably not just zle. (Does the stat() problem go away if you run zsh without zle?) I have access to a 2.0.32 system --- unfortunately it needs booting too often to show this problem --- with zsh 3.0.2 and looking at strace I can only suggest checking things like - setlocale() - getuid(), geteuid(), and friends - isatty() - tcsetpgrp() and related terminal handling - getrlimit() --- if this gets a wrong type for a limit, and passes it on, that could cause fireworks, though why after 250 days uptime? - termcap I can pass on what strace is giving here for comparison, if that's any use. Also, it would be worth making sure it isn't in the latest development version http://www.ifh.de/~pws/computing/zsh-3.1.5-pws-8.tar.gz since the stuff that opens the terminal has changed a bit. I doubt if this is helpful. -- Peter Stephenson Tel: +39 050 844536 WWW: http://www.ifh.de/~pws/ Dipartimento di Fisica, Via Buonarroti 2, 56127 Pisa, Italy