From: cgf AT bbc DOT com (Chris Faylor)
Subject: Re: jed update & ksh attempt
12 Jun 1997 09:17:01 -0700
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In article <339E8E49 DOT E7772F65 AT prairienet DOT org>,
Gilligan  <kunglao AT prairienet DOT org> wrote:
>I just picked up the pdksh sources, and sure enough the thing compiled
>right out of the box.  The only problem was running it, is it seems to
>crash after running one command.  It never returns to the command line. 
>Has anyone already looked into ksh and getting it working?

I tried compiling zsh a while ago and found that there were problems
with the way SIGCHLD is handled.  zsh starts a command and then waits
in a 'sigsuspend' for a SIGCHLD -- which never shows up.  I imagine that
pdksh is doing something similar.

I'm still sort of stumped as to how to go about debugging the cygwin.dll,
so it is difficult to see what is going wrong.  Probably there is a problem
with the way signals are being queued.
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