Date: Sat, 20 Jul 2002 23:17:41 -0700 From: Bakul Shah <bakul@bitblocks.com> To: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG, ache@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: suspend bug Message-ID: <200207210617.CAA27637@wellington.cnchost.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 21 Jul 2002 14:54:00 %2B1000." <20020721145145.R19118-100000@gamplex.bde.org>
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> Some more details: > - this happens for csh but not for bash-1. > - ktracing everything shows further strange behaviour. ktrace causes a > kernel printf "Out of ktrace request objects.". The login shell is > not lost immediately. You get a shell prompt, but at least tty echo is > broken, and hitting return a few times causes all the shells to exit. With zsh the login shell doesn't die but the suspended su stays suspended after repeated fg attempts. > The bug is actually in su. It happens with a pre-KSEIII kernel. Backing > out rev.1.54 of su.c (which was apparently supposed to fix a related bug > tcsh's fg command) fixes it. Thanks very much for tracking this down! Should've suspected su first (sorry, Julian!). It would be nice if we had a regression test for most commands to prevent such breakage. If there is a framework in place people can add tests for individual commands. Ideas, anyone? -- bakul To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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