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Subject: Re: tcsh backtick hang info
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On Jul 11,  8:56pm, mp@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 :-)

Best,

christos