Re: reset tty modes on TMOUT

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From: Bart Schaefer <schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

To: Mikael Magnusson <mikachu@xxxxxxxxx>

Cc: "J.R. Oldroyd" <fbsd@xxxxxxxx>, Zsh hackers list <zsh-workers@xxxxxxx>

Subject: Re: reset tty modes on TMOUT

Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2026 00:22:17 -0700

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On Sun, Jul 26, 2026, 11:42 PM Mikael Magnusson <mikachu@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Mon, Jul 27, 2026 at 6:07 AM Bart Schaefer <schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>

>
> The patch is easy ... but a new question is why the shell is exiting
> at all. I didn't think about this at first, but the ALRM signal isn't
> supposed to be fatal.

The default action is to exit,

Oh, duh. I have ALRM trapped in shells by default, so even if I start a new shell with -f the signal is ignored.

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