Control: tags 920455 + patch After some discussion, upstream proposed the attached patch, which can be dropped into debian/patches and listed in debian/patches/series.
Chet says "In the meantime, distributions are free to take the change and apply it to their versions." I've pushed this to the fix-920455 branch on https://salsa.debian.org/debian/bash as well, if that makes it easier to adopt. --dkg
From: Daniel Kahn Gillmor <d...@fifthhorseman.net> Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2019 18:26:33 -0400 Subject: wait builtin: avoid hanging on inherited children in https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bash/2019-04/msg00096.html, Chet Ramey proposes this fix to avoid the wait builtin hanging on previously unknown children. This addresses debian bug #920455. --- jobs.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/jobs.c b/jobs.c index ce2bdf2..2c24537 100644 --- a/jobs.c +++ b/jobs.c @@ -2488,7 +2488,7 @@ wait_for_background_pids () r = wait_for (last_procsub_child->pid); wait_procsubs (); reap_procsubs (); -#if 1 +#if 0 /* We don't want to wait indefinitely if we have stopped children. */ /* XXX - should add a loop that goes through the list of process substitutions and waits for each proc in turn before this code. */
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