Path: csiph.com!xmission!news.glorb.com!usenet.stanford.edu!not-for-mail From: Chet Ramey Newsgroups: gnu.bash.bug Subject: Re: Bug in bash 4.4-beta: suspending and restarting "man" program Date: Fri, 30 Oct 2015 06:55:26 -0400 Lines: 24 Approved: bug-bash@gnu.org Message-ID: References: Reply-To: chet.ramey@case.edu NNTP-Posting-Host: lists.gnu.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: usenet.stanford.edu 1446202539 28346 208.118.235.17 (30 Oct 2015 10:55:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: action@cs.stanford.edu Cc: Keith Thompson , chet.ramey@case.edu To: Keith Thompson , bug-bash@gnu.org Envelope-to: bug-bash@gnu.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.10; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.3.0 In-Reply-To: X-Mirapoint-Virus-RAPID-Raw: score=unknown(0), refid=str=0001.0A020204.56334CA0.011A,ss=1,re=0.000,fgs=0, ip=0.0.0.0, so=2015-08-12 04:07:17, dmn=2011-05-27 18:58:46 X-Mirapoint-Loop-Id: 33c1e149cdd55d7234d384eb5cbc766f X-Junkmail-Whitelist: YES (by domain whitelist at mpv2-2015.case.edu) X-Mirapoint-Virus-RAPID-Raw: score=unknown(0), refid=str=0001.0A020202.56334CA1.000C,ss=1,re=0.000,fgs=0, ip=0.0.0.0, so=2015-08-12 04:07:17, dmn=2011-05-27 18:58:46 X-Mirapoint-Loop-Id: f9c8122a5ccddb441f4be75900b9c7b3 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4.x-2.6.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 129.22.103.227 X-BeenThere: bug-bash@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Bug reports for the GNU Bourne Again SHell List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Xref: csiph.com gnu.bash.bug:11804 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 -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU chet@case.edu http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/