Re: background, pipeline, hang

[Mike Jonkmans]

On Fri, Jul 12, 2019 at 10:14:19AM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2019 10:14:19 -0400
> From: Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org>
> To: Mike Jonkmans <bashbug@jonkmans.nl>
> Cc: bug-bash@gnu.org, bash@packages.debian.org
> Subject: Re: background, pipeline, hang
> 
> On Fri, Jul 12, 2019 at 04:00:57PM +0200, Mike Jonkmans wrote:
> > uname output: Linux sint 4.15.0-54-generic #58-Ubuntu SMP Mon Jun 24 
> > 10:55:24 UTC 2019 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
> 
> (Why are you reporting problems on an Ubuntu system on a debian.org
> mailing list?)

Valid point.
I used bashbug. The email addresses were already filled in.
Should i leave out bash@packages.debian.org ?

> > Repeat-By:
> >     : | : | : ## immediately finishes
> >     sleep 10 &
> >     : | : | : ## this hangs (^C, ^\, ^Z do not help) until the sleep 
> > finishes
> 
> I cannot reproduce this.  I tried bash 4.4 on Debian 10 (self-built),
> the standard bash 4.4 package (version 4.4-5) on Debian 9, and the standard
> bash 5.0 package (version 5.0-4) on Debian 10.

Thanks for trying.

> You might want to try running a new instance of bash with --norc --noprofile
> to remove any dot file settings from the picture.

This is a very good tip.
It might be useful to have this mentioned somewhere in bashbug.

I have narrowed it down thanks to this. Will use another post for that.

Thanks.