Package: zsh Version: 4.3.9-3 Severity: normal After typing Ctrl-Z (to background a graphical application) and "bg": sometimes the escape sequences are output to the terminal, even though they are interpreted by zsh.
I've attached a patch (modified upstream patch for zsh 4.3.9). For discussions about this problem, see the following threads: http://www.zsh.org/mla/workers/2009/msg00411.html http://www.zsh.org/mla/users/2009/msg00327.html -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers oldstable APT policy: (500, 'oldstable'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.26.5-20080922 (SMP w/2 CPU cores; PREEMPT) Locale: LANG=POSIX, LC_CTYPE=en_US.ISO8859-1 (charmap=ISO-8859-1) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages zsh depends on: ii libc6 2.9-6 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libcap2 1:2.16-4 support for getting/setting POSIX. ii libncursesw5 5.7+20090314-1 shared libraries for terminal hand Versions of packages zsh recommends: ii libc6 2.9-6 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libpcre3 7.8-2 Perl 5 Compatible Regular Expressi Versions of packages zsh suggests: ii zsh-doc 4.3.9-3 zsh documentation - info/HTML form -- no debconf information
--- Src/utils.c.orig 2008-10-31 10:40:18.000000000 +0100 +++ Src/utils.c 2009-03-25 13:55:54.000000000 +0100 @@ -1437,13 +1437,13 @@ # ifndef TCSADRAIN # define TCSADRAIN 1 /* XXX Princeton's include files are screwed up */ # endif - tcsetattr(SHTTY, TCSADRAIN, &ti->tio); - /* if (tcsetattr(SHTTY, TCSADRAIN, &ti->tio) == -1) */ + while (tcsetattr(SHTTY, TCSADRAIN, &ti->tio) == -1 && errno == EINTR) + ; # else - ioctl(SHTTY, TCSETS, &ti->tio); - /* if (ioctl(SHTTY, TCSETS, &ti->tio) == -1) */ + while (ioctl(SHTTY, TCSETS, &ti->tio) == -1 && errno == EINTR) + ; # endif - /* zerr("settyinfo: %e",errno)*/ ; + /* zerr("settyinfo: %e",errno);*/ #else # ifdef HAVE_TERMIO_H ioctl(SHTTY, TCSETA, &ti->tio);