Re: Zsh spins in endless loop with SIGHUP + read in zshexit

["Daniel Shahaf" <d.s@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks for the bug report and analysis.  I don't have anything to add to that.  However:

Jörg Sommer wrote on Thu, 13 May 2021 10:17 +00:00:
>         if read -rq junk"?Root filesystem is still read-write. Remount ro? (y/N) "

You don't have to name the variable here; «read -q '?foo bar baz '» is valid.  This, then?

diff --git a/Doc/Zsh/builtins.yo b/Doc/Zsh/builtins.yo
index 61dc6986f..92f379d49 100644
--- a/Doc/Zsh/builtins.yo
+++ b/Doc/Zsh/builtins.yo
@@ -1449,7 +1449,7 @@ findex(read)
 vindex(IFS, use of)
 redef(SPACES)(0)(tt(ifztexi(NOTRANS(@ @ @ @ @ ))ifnztexi(     )))
 xitem(tt(read )[ tt(-rszpqAclneE) ] [ tt(-t) [ var(num) ] ] [ tt(-k) [ var(num) ] ] [ tt(-d) var(delim) ])
-item(SPACES()[ tt(-u) var(n) ] [ var(name)[tt(?)var(prompt)] ] [ var(name) ...  ])(
+item(SPACES()[ tt(-u) var(n) ] [ [var(name)][tt(?)var(prompt)] ] [ var(name) ...  ])(
 vindex(REPLY, use of)
 vindex(reply, use of)
 Read one line and break it into fields using the characters

(Hope the webmail doesn't munge long lines!)

Cheers,

Daniel