Marc Lehmann wrote:  [Wed Apr 08 2009, 11:14:25PM EDT]
> What you describe really looks like a bug in bash - most likely, it tries
> to write the prompt, for some reason it gets cut into two parts (likely
> due to the two lines - linux suffers from similar idiocies in it's ttys),
> and when your shell gets a SIGWINCH it forgets to print the rest of the
> prompt.

Or in my case, it actually gets printed twice.  See
http://agriffis.n01se.net/misc/urxvtc-bash-prompt.png

> While this all could still be some problem in urxvt, a bash bug fits the
> description much better at the moment.

Agreed.

> Maybe you would be able to reproduce this under ktrace (on bash), so one
> can see whether bash really writes the prompt or indeed bash just doesn't
> write the prompt. A ktrace on urxvt would show whether it correctly
> configures the pty, too.

I'll try to do this soon.  I attempted once earlier and found the
tracing interfered enough that the race didn't appear.

Aron

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