Re: 5.0.9 eventually...?

[Mikael Magnusson <mikachu@gmail.com>]

On Sat, Aug 8, 2015 at 10:40 PM, Bart Schaefer
<schaefer@brasslantern.com> wrote:
> On Aug 8, 2015 12:11 PM, "Peter Stephenson" <p.w.stephenson@ntlworld.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> Anyone (including Bart, obviously) with a feel for what's the state of
>> affairs with regards to immediate problems?
>
> Nothing has been done about the infinite loop with "wait" printing the job
> status.  After pointing out that ksh and bash differ in wait
> implementation, I got distracted by the signal handing deadlock thread.
>
> I have what I think is a comprehensive patch for that signal issue but am
> AFK today (writing this message on my phone).  Will post later.
>
> I posted a sort-of patch for the "typeset -T" crash, but I agree that it is
> not the ideal solution.

As far as I could tell, the code in question has been there since 2005
so it's not a recent regression, if that's a factor.

> That's as much as I'm aware of from memory.

Same, and glancing through the threads, I can't see anything else
important either.

All the (known) $(( ))-related problems were fixed, right?

-- 
Mikael Magnusson