Re: [Bug-readline] terminal corruption with spawned ruby processes

[Eric Thompson]

On Tue, Apr 11, 2017 at 6:43 PM, Chet Ramey <address@hidden> wrote:

On 4/11/17 5:22 PM, Eric Thompson wrote:
> Hi all,
>    I ran into a possible problem in readline developing a library for Rake
> to aid in managing and launching processes.
>
> basically, if you use (ruby) Process.spawn or other ways to launch a
> subprocess that don't detach and that process inherits the stdin default
> pipe of the parent, the terminal input gets corrupted before hitting the
> child process (if that child is using readline).

All indications are that you have multiple processes simultaneously
attempting to read from stdin.

maybe.  that's not how ruby Process is supposed to work.  in addition, this isn't an issue when using alternatives to gnu readline (editline, rb-readline).

 

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