Hi,
The attached patch fixes a problem where Vim would freeze when executing an
external command. This problem occurs on Mac OS X 10.7 when using the zsh
shell, but only in GUI mode (calling ":echo system('ls')" twice caused Vim to
freeze).Briefly, the freeze occurred because waitpid() would always return 0 when waiting for the forked child to exit. This was caused by the O_NOCTTY being included in the open() call to the pty master, but not to the slave. It seems that other BSD based OSs may also be affected by this problem, but so far I've only ever heard of this problem occurring on the very specific combination of OS X 10.7/zsh/gvim. Hence this patch is only for Mac OS X at the moment, but perhaps it should be expanded to include other OSs? I'm no expert on this issues which is why I'm phrasing that as a question. Björn -- You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php
0001-Use-O_NOCTTY-when-opening-tty-on-Mac-OS-X.patch
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