Re: Job control: process running from pipe doesn't get focus
On 12/15/23 12:28 PM, Maksym Telychko wrote: Bash Version: 5.2 Patch Level: 21 Release Status: release Description: Process does not become foreground when run from a pipe. Repeat-By: Conditions are very special, and I am not sure who in the chain is cause of bug. In short the bug in the following line, but it should executed not from a running terminal emulator: uxterm -e bash -c 'echo /etc/fstab | { FILE="$(cat)" ; sudoedit "$FILE" ; }' It line of script must be run automatically from the WM. The chain to reproduce: | sway wm | | uxterm| | bash ... sudoedit | | i3 wm | --> | alacritty | -> | | | weston | | | | | swaywm config file: exec_always uxterm -e bash -c 'echo /etc/fstab | { FILE="$(cat)" ; sudoedit "$FILE" ; }' If sudoedit running not from a pipe, it works good. Some of terminal emulators do not reproduces the problem, such as `foot` or `xfce4-terminal`. The result of the chain is an editor isn't gain a focus and I cant type anything. Again, I'm not sure that is definetely bash, but could you please check that. Thank you. You might start by running a system call tracer like strace against the sudoedit process or the bash process that's calling it and seeing what they're doing. -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRUc...@case.eduhttp://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/ OpenPGP_signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Job control: process running from pipe doesn't get focus
From: maksym To: bug-bash@gnu.org Subject: Job control: process running from pipe doesn't get focus Configuration Information [Automatically generated, do not change]: Machine: x86_64 OS: linux-gnu Compiler: gcc Compilation CFLAGS: -march=x86-64 -mtune=generic -O2 -pipe -fno-plt -fexceptions -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -Wformat -Werror=format-security -fstack-clash-protection -fcf-protection -g -ffile-prefix-map=/build/bash/src=/usr/src/debug/bash -flto=auto -DDEFAULT_PATH_VALUE='/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin' -DSTANDARD_UTILS_PATH='/usr/bin' -DSYS_BASHRC='/etc/bash.bashrc' -DSYS_BASH_LOGOUT='/etc/bash.bash_logout' -DNON_INTERACTIVE_LOGIN_SHELLS uname output: Linux inspiron 6.1.61-1-lts #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Thu, 02 Nov 2023 12:57:06 + x86_64 GNU/Linux Machine Type: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu Bash Version: 5.2 Patch Level: 21 Release Status: release Description: Process does not become foreground when run from a pipe. Repeat-By: Conditions are very special, and I am not sure who in the chain is cause of bug. In short the bug in the following line, but it should executed not from a running terminal emulator: uxterm -e bash -c 'echo /etc/fstab | { FILE="$(cat)" ; sudoedit "$FILE" ; }' It line of script must be run automatically from the WM. The chain to reproduce: | sway wm | | uxterm| | bash ... sudoedit | | i3 wm | --> | alacritty | -> | | | weston | | | | | swaywm config file: exec_always uxterm -e bash -c 'echo /etc/fstab | { FILE="$(cat)" ; sudoedit "$FILE" ; }' If sudoedit running not from a pipe, it works good. Some of terminal emulators do not reproduces the problem, such as `foot` or `xfce4-terminal`. The result of the chain is an editor isn't gain a focus and I cant type anything. Again, I'm not sure that is definetely bash, but could you please check that. Thank you.