P.S. if the point of "linenoise" was to cope with faulty modem
sessions, note that people with this issue could disable control-z
before starting J, using

stty susp undef

But I don't think J should be optimized for faulty hardware.

Thanks,


--
Raul

On Mon, May 20, 2019 at 12:09 PM Raul Miller <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> I do not know what linenoise is, in this context, but control-z is
> basic functionality which predates libedit by decades.
>
> My inclination would be to remove that entire section of code (from
> the case statement to the continue statement) from the feature-reduced
> implementation of jconsole.
>
> Thanks,
>
> --
> Raul
>
> On Mon, May 20, 2019 at 11:55 AM bill lam <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > Right, the original linenoise ignore ctrl-z. There is another
> > fork that seemed has a patch for it.
> >
> >         case ctrl('Z'):     /* ctrl-z */
> > #ifdef SIGTSTP
> >             /* send ourselves SIGSUSP */
> >             disableRawMode(current);
> >             raise(SIGTSTP);
> >             /* and resume */
> >             enableRawMode(current);
> >             refreshLine(current);
> > #endif
> >             continue;
> >
> > If users want the same level of functions of libedit, the
> > linenoise version can never satisfy them no matter how hard
> > we put efforts to improve linenoise. It is better to use the
> > libedit in that case.
> >
> > Mon, 20 May 2019, Raul Miller написал(а):
> > > On Mon, May 20, 2019 at 11:04 AM bill lam <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > > jconsole can not run on rhel if users do not have sudo right to symlink
> > > > some shared library. I hope this issue can be addressed properly
> > > > in j901.
> > >
> > > This is an example of a bigger problem that can occur in a variety of 
> > > contexts.
> > >
> > > I think the "jconsole without libedit" mechanism is a good thing. If
> > > we want J to be usable in docker instances, ec2 instances, docker
> > > instances in ec2 instances, etc. etc. then we want it to be simple and
> > > robust. (We also would want relevant documentation and some way of
> > > coping with feature drift and stale documentation in the hosting
> > > environments, but that just gives you an idea of the scope of the
> > > problems.)
> > >
> > > That said:
> > >
> > > (1) It's odd that this beta jconsole instance is ignoring control-Z.
> > > This issue suggests that the SIGTSTP signal is being caught and then
> > > jconsole is ignoring it. (It would probably be a good idea to not
> > > catch signals if you do not have a specific reason for doing so. If
> > > there's a reason for this one, it might need a foreign?)
> > >
> > > (2) If symlinks are the showstopper for the feature-enhanced jconsole,
> > > it would make sense to put the symlinks in the same directory as J and
> > > link against those. If there are other issues (like different versions
> > > of libedit having different interfaces for needed mechanisms) it would
> > > make sense to let the user compile the code that uses the libraries.
> > > If the user needs privileges to compile and deploy which they do not
> > > have, they can fall back on the feature reduced jconsole.
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > >
> > > --
> > > Raul
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