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Re: Ctrl-Z hang
On Mon, Jan 01, 2001 at 10:13:01PM -0800, Jon Dattorro wrote:
>I notice that cygwin hangs permanently when "man <some_command>" is
>invoked and then Ctrl-z (suspended) after viewing a few pages. This bug
>is intermittent.
This should be fixed in tonight's snapshot.
It was an interesting problem. I didn't see the problem on my normal
test machine but it failed repeatedly on my laptop. What was happening
was that a CTRL-Z would send a SIGTSTP to less which would dutifully
process it. bash would step in and grab the tty back from less and
*sometimes* less would still be in the process of reading from the tty.
This would generate a SIGTTIN,, which would confuse less and cause a
hang.
So, cygwin no longer will send itself a SIGTTIN in this scenario.
It also no longer queues STOP signals which was another problem.
cgf
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