Re: strange behavior

[Vincent Lefevre <vincent@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 2011-04-11 16:15:27 +0100, Peter Stephenson wrote:
> On Mon, 11 Apr 2011 16:39:30 +0200
> Vincent Lefevre <vincent@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > and this is because the SIGWINCH seems to interrupt the "read"
> > (is it a bug?), so that
> > 
> >     while read -r $timeout -k -u 0 ch
> >     do
> >       line="$line$ch"
> >       [[ $ch = $'\012' ]] && break
> >       timeout=(-t 0.1)
> >     done
> > 
> > gives an empty string; hence the observed behavior.
> 
> Yes, we handle EINTR in most places and should do so here.  There are
> lots of nasty special cases in bin_read(); I think this is this one.
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Thanks, I confirm that the problem has been fixed with the latest
zsh-beta upgrade under Debian.

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