Re: Serious HP-UX problem ! Shell hangs !

[P.Stephenson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]

coleman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > > This is a *serious* HP-UX 9 problem of the zsh, which it didn't have
> > > with previous versions (not with beta6 at least).
> > > 
> > >   Situation :
> > > 
> > >   $ sleep 10 (any process will do)
> > >   [Ctrl-Z] 
> > >   zsh: 16763 suspended  sleep 10
> > >   $ sleep 5 (any process)
> > >   *hang*
> > 
> > This is a quite old problem (it is present at least since beta6). It is OS
> > dependent, and it is also present on ULTRIX. As I remember it appeared afte
> r
> > Richard rewrote the signals code. He promised to fix that.
> 
> I don't have any HP or DEC machines, so it is difficult for me to
> track down.  Does this still happen if you change POSIX_SIGNALS to
> BSD_SIGNALS?  It might be bugs in the Posix code for these machines.
> If this fixes it, I can just force configure to use BSD signals on
> these machines.

I can't reproduce this bug at all for Ultrix 4.3, even with
POSIX_SIGNALS.

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