Re: [Axiom-developer] Re: Bug#346552: naive methods of exiting axiom can blow up catastrophically

[Camm Maguire]

Greetings, and thanks!

Can anyone see what this might suggest in the sman code?

Take care,

Waldek Hebisch <address@hidden> writes:

> root wrote:
> > Camm,
> > 
> > Architecturally there is a process called sman which starts up
> > other processes including axiomsys, which is a saved GCL image.
> > sman handles the terminal. by default a special terminal handler
> > called 'clef' (command line edit function) which is our own version
> > of readline-like handling is started.
> > 
> > try starting axiom with
> > 
> >   axiom -noclef
> > 
> > and see if the problem still happens.
> > 
> 
> Reproducible (using build-improvements) both with and without clef.
> When AXIOMsys is run directly ^D exits it. When AXIOMsys is run via
> clef ^D\n exits it.  With sman present Axiom crashes.
> 
> -- 
>                               Waldek Hebisch
> address@hidden 
> 
> 
> 

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