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Bug 82261 - man terminates when suspended
Summary: man terminates when suspended
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED UPSTREAM
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: man
Version: 9
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Eido Inoue
QA Contact: Ben Levenson
URL:
Whiteboard:
: 73002 (view as bug list)
Depends On:
Blocks: 79579 CambridgeTarget
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2003-01-20 17:29 UTC by David Balažic
Modified: 2007-04-18 16:50 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Environment:
Last Closed: 2003-08-07 21:47:33 UTC
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Description David Balažic 2003-01-20 17:29:09 UTC 
Description of problem:

If I press ctrl-Z when man is displaying a manual page, then man can not be 
restored any more.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

man-1.5j-12.i386.rpm

How reproducible:


Steps to Reproduce:
1. login on VT1
2. "man sfdisk"
3. ctrl-Z
4. "fg"
    
Actual results:

man exits

Expected results:

man resumes and can be used to view the page

Additional info:

ctrl-Z works fine with other programs, like sleep , less or vi
Comment 1 David Balažic 2003-01-30 18:16:32 UTC 
Same thing in phoebe2 ( 8.0.93 ).
man-1.5k-2

All default settings; shell is bash etc.
Comment 2 Bill Nottingham 2003-02-11 05:40:06 UTC 
Works for me with current packages - does it work for you?
Comment 3 David Balažic 2003-02-13 09:29:42 UTC 
Yes, but there is still something weird :

man ls
press ctrl-Z after the page appear :
no shell prompt.
press RETURN -> shell prompt appears.

This happens if ctrl-z is pressed in less than 9 seconds
after man ls is started. If pressed after 9 or more seconds,
then it behaves OK.
Comment 4 David Balažic 2003-02-14 08:40:00 UTC 
More info :
kernel-2.4.20-2.21 -> man on ctrl-z exits ( terminates )
kernel-2.4.20-2.41 -> man on ctrl-z stops, with the 9 second issue descibed in 
comment #3
Comment 5 Eido Inoue 2003-08-07 21:47:33 UTC 
I'm going to leave this as a feature for upstream. Most apps that do non-trivial
screen manipulation with a library have to be specifically written to support
application suspension. (that is, put the terminal in a sane state) Hence the
need for a "terminal reset" feature in most X-based terminal programs...
Comment 6 Eido Inoue 2003-08-07 21:48:44 UTC 
*** Bug 73002 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 7 David Balažic 2003-08-08 14:32:25 UTC 
> most X-based terminal programs

? I was doing everything on text console, without X
Comment 8 Eido Inoue 2003-08-08 15:27:25 UTC 
The analogy for a terminal reset in the console would be something like "stty sane"
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