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Re: Now need to do a 1.5.10 release ASAP
On Thu, Mar 25, 2004 at 01:03:22PM -0500, Nicholas Wourms wrote:
>cgf wrote:
>>I have unearthed YA signal handling problem on Windows ME. It's easy
>>enough to duplicate but I can't figure out the reason for the behavior
>>yet. I've been hitting on it in my spare time but it is holding up the
>>release.
>
>Can you be more specific? I'm curious because I've been having
>problems as well, but assumed they were related to local changes I
>made.
Surprisingly, it turned out to be a bash bug, AFAICT. You should be able
to trigger it on linux if you hold down ^C long enough. Eventually, you'll
get a signal handler calling kill, which calls the same signal handler, which
calls kill, which calls the same signal handler, which calls kill, etc.
cgf