CVS head bash problem

Rolf Campbell rcampbell@tropicnetworks.com
Thu Apr 24 02:08:00 GMT 2003


Rolf Campbell wrote:
> Rolf Campbell wrote:
> I just tried a simple test, created about 100 lines of text, all of them 
> "cat hhhh".  Then copied them into the clipboard and pasted them into an 
> NT shell running bash.  I've appended the important part of the output. 
>  At the end of this, bash is dead (still shows up in ms-task manager, 
> but doesn't respond to anything (including ^C).  I was able to reproduce 
> this in rxvt as well but it took much longer, and ^C sort-of worked. 
> After the ^C, I got back to a prompt, but then I tried to run "ps" and 
> rxvt immediately exited.  I have been unable to reproduce using strace.
Now that I know about the rxvt paste problem, i went back to working on 
the NT-console.  I can't produce any 'lock-ups' there.  Only some very 
confusing output.  It seems that when it decides to run a process in the 
background, it will still read part of the next line before the 
background process steals stdin.



/home/rcampbell> cat hhhh
cat: hhhh: No such file or directory
/home/rcampbell> cat hhhh
cat: hhhh: No such file or directory
/home/rcampbell> cat hhhh
/home/rcampbell> cat
cat: hhhh: No such file or directory
hhhh
hhhh
cat hhhh
cat hhhh
cat hhhh
cat hhhh



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