Oscar del Rio wrote: > Harry Putnam wrote: >> I've found thru several versions of osol (2008.11 b101 thru 2010.10 >> b118) that periodically when typing in some cmdline, the typing will >> freeze at some point and further keystrokes do not enter any more >> characters. >> At that point I found I can backtrack with the previou/next (up down >> arrows) one step back and then come back to the current line... then >> typing can continue. > > It's a bug in /bin/bash: > > http://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=3743 > http://bugs.opensolaris.org/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6780158 > > Jan Hnatek @ Sun has a source patch > http://markmail.org/message/ufpp3vm54sxijd74 > http://cr.opensolaris.org/~hnhn/bash_6780158/usr/src/cmd/bash/text.c.patch.html > > > > I'm surprised the bug is still there in b118.
Additional sparc-specific problem was found while fixing this, so I'm waiting for an upstream patch to integrate that in one piece. The bug is there for ages, so hopefully a couple more weeks won't hurt much. Regards, hnhn -- Jan Hnatek jan.hnatek at sun.com
