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Subject:	Re: ^Z can't suspend less in the tty mode
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From:	Kazuhiro Fujieda <fujieda AT jaist DOT ac DOT jp>
Date:	09 May 2000 21:13:29 +0900
In-Reply-To:	"Fifer, Eric"'s message of Tue, 9 May 2000 10:41:59 +0100
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>>> On Tue, 9 May 2000 10:41:59 +0100 
>>> "Fifer, Eric" <EFifer AT sanwaint DOT com> said:

> What is happening is that when SIGTSTP is caught the signal
> handler does a longjmp().  And, when the thread restarts at the
> setjmp() the signal mask is not restored.

I can understand what is the problem. less wants setjmp() and
longjmp() to do more than what they can do in Cygwin.

> This is a patch against
> less-354 (from http://home.flash.net/~marknu/less/ ) which fixes
> the problem:

Your patch is also applicable to many older versions.
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  | AIST      Kazuhiro Fujieda <fujieda AT jaist DOT ac DOT jp>
  | HOKURIKU  School of Information Science
o_/ 1990      Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology

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