Re: error on TTY read: no such file or directory

[lordzork@xxxxxxxxxxxx]

In the gothic chambers of the underworld on Sat 29 Sep 2001 at 18:39 -0400,
Bart Schaefer muttered darkly:

> On Sep 29,  6:11pm, lordzork@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> }
> }     ((UID)) || {
> }         set -x
> }         exec 2>|/tmp/login-trace
> }     }
> 
> You can take that out now, it isn't helping.
> 
> } > It was not my question. I do not understand where this data comes from 
> } > and how can read one byte return 1025 bytes. It looks more like a 
> } > contents of readdir() but I have no idea how can it appear on shell input.
> 
> The data printed by strace is misleading.  read() is being called with
> the address of single character (line 405 of zle_main.c):
> 
> 	    r = read(SHTTY, &cc, 1);
> 
> Strace displays the arguments as they were passed *to* the read() call,
> not as they are returned, so what you're seeing in the trace is just
> stack garbage.
> 
> Nevertheless, the problem is that read() is returning a positive integer
> greater than the number of bytes it was asked to read.  This confuses
> the getkey() loop, which only expects that `r' can be 1, 0, or -1 at
> that point.  You need to find out why your read() call is so badly broken!
> 

and this read() function is a part of what? zsh? glibc?

t.

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