From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 17597 invoked from network); 13 Jul 1999 12:32:29 -0000 Received: from sunsite.auc.dk (130.225.51.30) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 13 Jul 1999 12:32:29 -0000 Received: (qmail 22777 invoked by alias); 13 Jul 1999 12:32:24 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-workers-help@sunsite.auc.dk; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes X-Seq: 7109 Received: (qmail 22770 invoked from network); 13 Jul 1999 12:32:24 -0000 Message-Id: <9907131201.AA35778@ibmth.df.unipi.it> To: zsh-workers@sunsite.auc.dk Subject: Re: PATCH: some more job-control-tests In-Reply-To: "Sven Wischnowsky"'s message of "Tue, 13 Jul 1999 12:37:34 DFT." <199907131037.MAA24749@beta.informatik.hu-berlin.de> Date: Tue, 13 Jul 1999 14:01:29 +0200 From: Peter Stephenson Sven Wischnowsky wrote: > Peter: the file contains the sed-loop from 7056 which didn't work for > you -- could you reproduce the failure? It's still happening under AIX 3 here --- it takes a few ^C's to get it to stop. It doesn't seem to be happening with the same version under Irix 6, SunOS5 or HPUX 10 --- although the response is a good deal slower, so I can't be sure it wasn't happening at all. But the whole thing is weird: if I redirect the error messages from sed, it stops much more frequently, though not every time, sometimes with status 1 and sometimes with status 130, which presumably means sometimes it is, after all, interrupting the shell itself. Setting a trap shows that it really is behaving as if it hasn't got the signal. As before, if it doesn't get it on the first few tries it seems to hang up completely. Maybe I can look and see what it's waiting for, but I have to get it to happen first... oh, great, gdb's hung up too. Anyway, it looks like some AIX strangeness, maybe to do with I/O, so probably we shouldn't worry too much. Aha! bash has the same problem here... and not elsewhere. So it's almost certainly the system. -- Peter Stephenson Tel: +39 050 844536 WWW: http://www.ifh.de/~pws/ Dipartimento di Fisica, Via Buonarroti 2, 56127 Pisa, Italy