Here's an interesting problem I've found:
From the terminal (or other CLI login) run ftp.
Now suspend it with ^-Z.
Every time you press return from now on, you should be appraised of the fact that ftp is in fact suspended (abnormal).
Now, try to resume it with fg.
ftp no longer responds. ^-Z , ^-C, et. al. don't work.
In fact the only way to regain control over the shell is to open a new terminal window and kill -9 the offending ftp process. (yes, kill -9. kill -HUP and kill by itself don't work.)
Lynx is also prone to this problem, but I can't make it appear as regularly as with ftp. (I think you have to suspend lynx, then bg it, then fg it and it hangs...) So I don't think the problem is in ftp or lynx themselves, but maybe in some library they use? maybe curses?
Since I'm away from my OS X box and ssh is somehow broken, I can't check if this bug only shows up in tcsh, or if it affects other shells too...
Has anyone else noticed this or knows anything about this?
Zach
(Yes, I've reported it to apple...)
From the terminal (or other CLI login) run ftp.
Now suspend it with ^-Z.
Every time you press return from now on, you should be appraised of the fact that ftp is in fact suspended (abnormal).
Now, try to resume it with fg.
ftp no longer responds. ^-Z , ^-C, et. al. don't work.
In fact the only way to regain control over the shell is to open a new terminal window and kill -9 the offending ftp process. (yes, kill -9. kill -HUP and kill by itself don't work.)
Lynx is also prone to this problem, but I can't make it appear as regularly as with ftp. (I think you have to suspend lynx, then bg it, then fg it and it hangs...) So I don't think the problem is in ftp or lynx themselves, but maybe in some library they use? maybe curses?
Since I'm away from my OS X box and ssh is somehow broken, I can't check if this bug only shows up in tcsh, or if it affects other shells too...
Has anyone else noticed this or knows anything about this?
Zach
(Yes, I've reported it to apple...)
