help needed to fix contrib/ee crash/exit when receiving SIGWINCH

Gary Jennejohn gary.jennejohn at freenet.de
Fri Oct 23 11:50:31 UTC 2009


On Fri, 23 Oct 2009 12:58:43 +0400
pluknet <pluknet at gmail.com> wrote:

> 2009/10/23 Antony Mawer <lists at mawer.org>:
> > On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 1:35 PM, Alexander Best
> > <alexbestms at math.uni-muenster.de> wrote:
> >> hi everyone,
> >>
> >> together with hugh mahon (the author of ee) i've been trying to fix a nasty
> >> bug in ee. for some reason ee exits (not crashes) and leaves the console
> >> corrupted when receiving SIGWINCH (`killall -SIGWINCH ee` should exit all
> >> running ee instances).
> >
> > I noticed this the other day when working on a new 8.0-RC1 system...
> > in my case I was using putty (Windows ssh client) to access the system
> > and maximised the window I had ee running in, and noticed ee just
> > dumped me straight to the prompt.
> >
> > I am wondering if this has anything to do with the new tty subsystem
> > in 8.0, as this wasn't a problem I've experienced before under 7.x...
> >
> 
> No, that's a regression appeared in (FreeBSD'ish? version of) ee 1.5.0.
> 

SIGWINCH is handled in new_curse.c, but it's not being compiled/linked.

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Gary Jennejohn


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