Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2009 14:00:49 +0200 From: Gary Jennejohn <gary.jennejohn@freenet.de> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: help needed to fix contrib/ee crash/exit when receiving SIGWINCH Message-ID: <20091023140049.110d0562@ernst.jennejohn.org> In-Reply-To: <20091023135024.377bcfa6@ernst.jennejohn.org> References: <permail-20091023023507f0889e8400001398-a_best01@message-id.uni-muenster.de> <ea2d4a5b0910222102w1269d071o221a42e9ee85f5b7@mail.gmail.com> <a31046fc0910230158w6cf60a20o661252fd9cc64ad7@mail.gmail.com> <20091023135024.377bcfa6@ernst.jennejohn.org>
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On Fri, 23 Oct 2009 13:50:24 +0200 Gary Jennejohn <gary.jennejohn@freenet.de> wrote: > On Fri, 23 Oct 2009 12:58:43 +0400 > pluknet <pluknet@gmail.com> wrote: > > > 2009/10/23 Antony Mawer <lists@mawer.org>: > > > On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 1:35 PM, Alexander Best > > > <alexbestms@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. > Never mind - I see that new_curse.c is supposed to be a substitute for ncurses if it's not available on the system. Sorry for the noise. --- Gary Jennejohn
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