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Re: Changing window size via bind -x may cause bash to hang in futex() c
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Chet Ramey |
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Re: Changing window size via bind -x may cause bash to hang in futex() call |
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Sun, 27 Mar 2011 20:50:26 -0400 |
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On 2/27/11 4:26 AM, Henning Bekel wrote:
> Bash Version: 4.2
> Patch Level: 0
> Release Status: release
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> Description: When the size of an XTerminal is changed via a keybinding
> (either by issuing an escape sequence or by an external
> program that uses xlib) then sometimes bash will simply hang
> before redrawing the prompt, not responding to C-c
> anymore. I've used strace to verify that it's not the terminal
> but indeed bash that seems to hang, apparently in a
> futex(...FUTEX_WAIT...) call.
Thanks for the report. This will be fixed in the next release of
bash/readline.
Chet
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