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Re: XTerm WaitForMap resource

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From: "Bart Schaefer" <schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Greg Badros <gjb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, zsh-workers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: XTerm WaitForMap resource
Date: Thu, 29 Apr 1999 08:30:13 -0700
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On Apr 28, 10:14pm, Greg Badros wrote:
} Subject: XTerm WaitForMap resource
}
} It appears that Zsh-3.0.6 has fixed a bug I noticed in zsh-3.0.5 whereby 
} if the zsh exec'd before the xterm (nxterm in my case) mapped, it would
} get confused:
} 
} I'm curious if anyone remembers fixing this problem and can explain what 
} was going wrong and what the fix was.

I'm pretty sure it's this one:

1998-10-24 19:48  Bart Schaefer <schaefer@xxxxxxx>

	* Src/exec.c: Patch readoutput() so the output of command
	substitutions isn't lost on an EINTR read error.

A SIGWINCH would be sent when the xterm mapped itself, and if a $(...)
happened to be running at that moment, the output would simply vanish.

-- 
Bart Schaefer                                 Brass Lantern Enterprises
http://www.well.com/user/barts              http://www.brasslantern.com

References:
- XTerm WaitForMap resource
  - From: Greg Badros

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