Oscar del Rio <delrio at mie.utoronto.ca> writes: > 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.
After looking at the bug report...I see it can be reproduced reliably by pressing right arrow key when at the command line.... anything typed after pressing right arrow key is lost. So if its a bash bug... then it would seem switching to ksh (korn93) should put an end to it. And sure enough... if change my login shell to ksh Logout then login.... using ksh shell... that annoyance disappears.
