In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Bruce Evans wrote:
> On Fri, 12 Nov 1999, Martin Cracauer wrote:
>
> > In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Bruce Evans wrote:
> > > `man sh' now hangs when the pager is exited. This is caused by the recent
> > > change to sh/eval.c
> >
> > My fix in 1.23 of eval.c was broken, but Steve repaired it in 1.24.
> >
> > Do you have 1.24?
>
> Yes, of course.
Sorry, I can reproduce the hangs with 1.23, while I can't with 1.24.
The problem is: A pipe with more data that sh's threshold for forking
is and the receiving end process exits before the sending process, not
consuming all of the pipe's contents.
That exactly what 1.24 fixed (for me :-).
Martin
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