From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 23 10:42:29 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 644FB1065679 for ; Fri, 23 Oct 2009 10:42:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from a_best01@uni-muenster.de) Received: from zivm-exrelay2.uni-muenster.de (ZIVM-EXRELAY2.UNI-MUENSTER.DE [128.176.192.15]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EB38D8FC16 for ; Fri, 23 Oct 2009 10:42:28 +0000 (UTC) X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.44,611,1249250400"; d="scan'208";a="227023899" Received: from zivmaildisp1.uni-muenster.de (HELO ZIVMAILUSER01.UNI-MUENSTER.DE) ([128.176.188.85]) by zivm-relay2.uni-muenster.de with ESMTP; 23 Oct 2009 12:42:27 +0200 Received: by ZIVMAILUSER01.UNI-MUENSTER.DE (Postfix, from userid 149459) id DAF921B0767; Fri, 23 Oct 2009 12:42:27 +0200 (CEST) Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2009 12:42:27 +0200 (CEST) From: Alexander Best Sender: Organization: Westfaelische Wilhelms-Universitaet Muenster To: pluknet , Antony Mawer Message-ID: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: help needed to fix contrib/ee crash/exit when receiving SIGWINCH X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2009 10:42:29 -0000 pluknet schrieb am 2009-10-23: > 2009/10/23 Antony Mawer : > > On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 1:35 PM, Alexander Best > > 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. i'm not so sure this is entirely ee's fault. i just grabbed a really ancient version of ee from http://www.anerd.org/sources/ (ee-1.4.2.src.tgz last modified Jan 2001). yet i see the very same behaviour as with ee 1.5.0. right now it looks more like a tty or ncurses bug. cheers. alex