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| Started by | Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu> |
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| First post | 2015-10-30 06:55 -0400 |
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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
| From | Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu> |
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| Date | 2015-10-30 06:55 -0400 |
| Subject | Re: Bug in bash 4.4-beta: suspending and restarting "man" program |
| Message-ID | <mailman.1321.1446202538.7904.bug-bash@gnu.org> |
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/
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