Re: Is this a bug?

[Chet Ramey]

On 8/18/20 5:14 PM, George R Goffe wrote:
> Chet,
> 
> 
> Please accept my apology for not responding to your email sooner.
> 
> I have the bash source from the(?) repository. I followed Dimitris suggestion 
> and found bash hung in a system call named "pselect". I did a grep on the 
> source and found the only two ".c" files using "pselect":

If it's in pselect, it's waiting for input. It's probably not performing
completion at all. It may have read the directory, found no common prefix
for the files it found, `rang' the visible bell, and gone back to waiting
to read the next input character.

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