Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1998 10:15:23 +0200 (MET DST)
From: Olivier Perron <perron AT art DOT alcatel DOT fr>
To: Nate Eldredge <nate AT cartsys DOT com>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>, djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Computer freeze when using latest version of vim and bash as inferior shell
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On Fri, 28 Aug 1998, Nate Eldredge wrote:

> Olivier Perron wrote:
> 
> > What did happen ? Well, in fact I was using a patched libc.a which came
> > from Thomas Demmer ftp site. I downloaded this patched libc.a the 24th oct
> > 1997. I can't say exactly what was corrected in this libc.a, but a (or
> > more) bug(s) have been introduced which make a buggy version of bash.
> > Now I have to check if I always have problems when using vim under
> > bash....
> 
> Perhaps you could try the latest patched libc (I am maintaining it now).
> 
> http://www.cartsys.com/eldredge/djgpp-patches.html
> 
> I'd like to know if it also has a bug.  (The __dpmi_yield fix is
> included there, btw).
> 
OK, I've just rebuild bash using your patched libc: it also have the same
problem.
(If I type a simple 'ls' command, nothing happens and I lost control in
the dos box.)

If I use the original v2.01 libc with just the __dpmi_yield fix, bash run
just fine.

Olivier.