Re: [vile] Console hang on exit (Win32)

[Thomas Dickey]

On Thu, 18 Feb 2010, Rick Sladkey wrote:

> My vile friends,
>
> I just got a new Windows 7 64-bit laptop and I've run into a serious
> problem with the console version of vile 9.7.  If I just open a
> command prompt window, run "vile.exe @nul" to defeat my vile.rc,
> vile opens normally.  However if I exit vile with ":q<RET>" the
> console hangs.  The display still shows the vile screen text including
> the status line and ": q" on the last line.  Task manager shows that
> vile.exe is no longer running.  I then have to terminate the console
> window.
>
> I admit I've been experiencing a related bug on Windows XP 32-bit for
> quite some time but I could never find the time to investigate it and I
> simply avoided the cirumstances that lead to it.  Perhaps it can be
> reproduced more easily than my Windows 7 issue:
>
> - open a fresh command prompt
> - run "vile.exe @nul"
> - Shell out to another prompt with ":sh<RET>"
> - run another vile "vile.exe @nul"
> - exit the second vile

I have XP SP3, and at this point (with just a "Q" to exit), the screen
for the first vile shows up, with the ":sh" line.  The window does not
respond.  So there is indeed something to debug...

> - exit the second command prompt with "exit<RET>"
> - observe that the first vile in wedged
>
> I just tried vile-9.7zb with the same results.  I suspect the two
> problems are related.

The symptoms do look similar (thanks)

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