Re: 3.0.6-pre-5 problem

["Bart Schaefer" <schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Jun 25,  8:22am, Sven Wischnowsky wrote:
} Subject: Re: 3.0.6-pre-5 problem
}
} And, of course, I have 6819 applied (which fixed a problem with
} suspending shell functions, although that problem didn't cause a
} SEGV).

It looks like the following hunk of 6819 fixes the crash by *not* assigning
a process ID to jn->other; however, the xterm still hangs ... I think zsh
may have sent a STOP signal to the xterm that is its parent.

@@ -959,10 +962,14 @@
 			close(synch[1]);
 			read(synch[0], &dummy, 1);
 			close(synch[0]);
-			jobtab[list_pipe_job].other = newjob;
-			jobtab[list_pipe_job].stat |= STAT_SUPERJOB;
-			jn->stat |= STAT_SUBJOB | STAT_NOPRINT;
-			jn->other = pid;
+			/* If this job has finished, we turn this into a
+			 * normal (non-super-) job. */
+			if (!(jn->stat & STAT_DONE)) {
+			    jobtab[list_pipe_job].other = newjob;
+			    jobtab[list_pipe_job].stat |= STAT_SUPERJOB;
+			    jn->stat |= STAT_SUBJOB | STAT_NOPRINT;
+			    jn->other = pid;
+			}
 			if (list_pipe || last1)
 			    killpg(jobtab[list_pipe_job].gleader, SIGSTOP);
 			break;

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