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Re: Bug in bash 4.4-beta: suspending and restarting "man" program

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On 10/28/15 10:02 PM, Keith Thompson wrote:
> I'm running bash 4.4-beta, built from bash-4.4-beta.tar.gz, on two
> different x86_64 systems, one running Debian 6.0.10 and another running
> Linux Mint 17.3.
> 
> On both systems, if I run "man rm" (for example) I can read the "rm(1)"
> man page using "less" (my $MANPAGER is set to "less -s -r").  If I then
> type Ctrl-Z, the "man" and "pager" processes are suspended and the screen
> is restored its previous state.
> 
> On the Debian system, I don't get a new shell prompt (this is the
> bug). The terminal continues to accept and echo input, but it's otherwise
> stuck.  Ctrl-C and Ctrl-Z are echoed as "^C" and "^Z", but are otherwise
> ignored.  I can recover by killing the "man" process from another window.

I don't have a Debian 6 system, but I can't reproduce this on Debian 7.

Chet

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Re: Bug in bash 4.4-beta: suspending and restarting "man" program Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu> - 2015-10-30 06:55 -0400

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