Eval ${#name[subscript]} incorrect when having multibyte characters.

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Re: stty sometimes hangs (ERESTARTSYS error) when called from .bashrc (cause discovered)

I have done more investigation, and I now know the cause of the bash/stty problem. It appears to be a race condition in bash (well, between two different bash shells, actually). I saw a post from a while back about something similar by Ingo Molnar, so I have copied him here too. Here is the ps t