tcsh backtick hang info

[Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri]

On 7/12/07, Doug White <dwhite at gumbysoft.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 12 Jul 2007, Christos Zoulas wrote:
>
> > On Jul 11,  8:56pm, mp at FreeBSD.org (Mark Peek) wrote:
> > -- Subject: Re: tcsh backtick hang info
> >
> > | There appears to be two different issues. One is with the builtin kill and the
> > | other is the gdb issue. I sent off a tentative patch to the reporter of the
> > | builtin kill issue and am awaiting onfirmation. The patch is here:
> > |
> > | http://people.freebsd.org/~mp/tcsh_kill.patch
> > |
> > | The gdb issue, much to my dismay, is still alluding my debugging skill given
> > | the interaction with gdb and issues with actually debugging what is happening.
> > |
> > | Mark
> >
> > Thanks for all the work and time spent tracking this! The fix is
> > definitely correct. You must be able to receive sigchld from the glob
> > command otherwise the shell will not be able to reap the `` job. So
> > blocking after globbing is the way to go. Good luck with gdb :-)
>
> Thanks for the good words, Christos! If you can confirm this will be the
> official patch then we can apply it to our vendor sources. If there are
> any other fixes for nasty bugs in 6.15.00 that you're hanging on to it'd
> be good to get those out and imported as well.
>
> We'll keep banging on the gdb issue.
>
> --
> Doug White                    |  FreeBSD: The Power to Serve
> dwhite at gumbysoft.com          |  www.FreeBSD.org

As for GDB, why don't you import 6.6? it's already in the ports and
works smoothly in 7.0 and 6.2-stable as well.


-- 
Regards,

-Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri
Arab Portal
http://www.WeArab.Net/