Now need to do a 1.5.10 release ASAP

[Christopher Faylor]

On Fri, Mar 26, 2004 at 11:10:03AM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>On Fri, Mar 26, 2004 at 10:55:27AM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>On Fri, Mar 26, 2004 at 04:38:27PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>>>On Mar 26 00:32, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>>> On Thu, Mar 25, 2004 at 01:03:22PM -0500, Nicholas Wourms wrote:
>>>> >cgf wrote:
>>>> >>I have unearthed YA signal handling problem on Windows ME.  It's easy
>>>> >>enough to duplicate but I can't figure out the reason for the behavior
>>>> >>yet.  I've been hitting on it in my spare time but it is holding up the
>>>> >>release.
>>>> >
>>>> >Can you be more specific?  I'm curious because I've been having
>>>> >problems as well, but assumed they were related to local changes I
>>>> >made.
>>>> 
>>>> Surprisingly, it turned out to be a bash bug, AFAICT.  You should be able
>>>> to trigger it on linux if you hold down ^C long enough.  Eventually, you'll
>>>> get a signal handler calling kill, which calls the same signal handler, which
>>>> calls kill, which calls the same signal handler, which calls kill, etc.
>>>
>>>I just encountered the following problem:  When using the signal
>>>patches from 2004-03-25, my bash scripts run, but never exit, unless
>>>I press Ctrl-C.  When changing the script's first line to #!/bin/sh,
>>>they exit fine.  Is that actually a bash bug?
>>
>>Do you have a shell script which demonstrates the problem?  I can't
>>duplicate this.
>
>Nevermind.  I duplicated the problem in the cygwin list by typing
>"bash -l".  I was just typing "bash" and "rxvt -e bash" before.

Does the patch I just checked in help?

cgf