Re: Bug#439425: Random, but fairly regular, zsh segfaults

[Peter Stephenson <p.w.stephenson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Clint Adams wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 24, 2007 at 05:40:26PM -0700, Robin Lee Powell wrote:
> > zsh does the following to me fairly regularily; this seems different
> > to me than the other segfault bug reports.  It seems to do it
> > slightly more often in my root shells.  It seems to motly occur when
> > I'm typing ahead (due to engaging in complicated history searching
> > or whatever during machine slowdowns).
> > 
> > I'm not sure how to get further data on this; it's pretty random.
> > I'd be happy to work with the maintainer or upstream people, but
> > note that I'm AFK from 28 Aug 2007 to 11 Sep 2007.
> 
> What are your history-related options?  What are the values of $HISTSIZE
> and $SAVEHIST ?

It would be good to get a backtrace with full debugging information
(configure with --enable-zsh-debug; it shouldn't make any difference to
normal use), also to know how you're invoking the history search
mechanism (there are lots of ways in).

Thanks.
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