bin/169773: [libedit] Resizing causes /bin/sh to repeat edit operations

Jilles Tjoelker jilles at stack.nl
Wed Jan 15 22:40:01 UTC 2014


The following reply was made to PR bin/169773; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Jilles Tjoelker <jilles at stack.nl>
To: bug-followup at FreeBSD.org, peter at rulingia.com
Cc:  
Subject: Re: bin/169773: [libedit] Resizing causes /bin/sh to repeat edit
 operations
Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2014 23:31:57 +0100

 In PR bin/169773, you wrote:
 > Given an account with /bin/sh as the login shell, if you type
 > some input, ending with an editing operation (eg backspace) and
 > then resize the window multiple times without further input,
 > the edit operation will be repeated on every second resize.
 
 I have removed the SIGWINCH handler from sh in r260654, as I don't think
 the libedit problem will be fixed properly any time soon. This is not
 entirely ideal, but stops most of the erratic behaviour.
 
 -- 
 Jilles Tjoelker


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