Re: info segfaults when the file being viewed is replaced

[Gavin Smith]

On 7 June 2015 at 11:20, Benno Schulenberg <address@hidden> wrote:
> In texinfo-5.9.93, do for example 'info/ginfo doc/info.info'.
> Then in a different terminal do 'touch doc/info.texi; make'
> and wait for it to complete.  Now type '/what<Enter>' in the
> first terminal and see it segfault, leaving the terminal in
> a strange state.

Thanks for the report. I think I've fixed it. However, as far as I am
aware there has never been much effort made to deal well with this
kind of thing happening, files being replaced or deleted while they're
being viewed. I daresay that the current behaviour could be improved.