On 1/19/2017 12:22 AM, Steven Penny wrote:
> On Tue, 17 Jan 2017 21:45:07, Steven Penny wrote:
>> I would like to keep this productive; my next step is to try to unpack that
>> large commit, while also helping Eric to reproduce.
>
> I have root caused this. With the new readline, running ./configure creates
> config.h, as expected. However new version adds this line:
>
> #define HAVE_PSELECT 1
>
> If you remove this from config.h, then make, the resultant DLL behaves as it
did
> with previous readline. Not sure what is causing this change, I will try to
dig
> into it more.
You probably found it, but here's why they added use of pselect:
"h. Use pselect(2), if available, to wait for input before calling read(2), so
a SIGWINCH can interrupt it, since it doesn't interrupt read(2)."
Of course that does not explain why it's not working how we would like ...
Regards - EM
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