> Perhaps this is a related problem: Haskell programs compiled ghc-4.04
> (or 4.05, I can't remember exactly) sometimes totally screw up the
> communication between Bash and XEmacs in a shell buffer: Bash seems
> to receive an infinite stream of char 255 (=> .bash_history grows
> to dozens of Megs) after a Haskell program terminates. I've got no
> idea why and when exactly this happens, but I hope somebody
> else has...
> :-)
1. Bash tries to read from stdin
2. stdin is set to non-blocking mode
3. read returns -1, errno = EAGAIN
4. Bash thinks -1 is char 255 and
doesn't bother to check errno
5. see 1 :-)
Just guessing,
Simon
