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perl debugger hangs when output is viewed via a pager

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Environment

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10

 

Situation

The perl debugger hangs when the output is piped into a pager such as less and that pager is exited, e.g. when running
perl -d script.pl | less

Resolution

Since control-C is ignored,often you can use  control-Z  to suspend the process and then kill it
kill %1 
Sometimes the hung debugger also ignorescontrol-Z; the process then needs to be killed from a separate login.

This isssue has been reported to Engineering and is expected to be fixed in the next Service Pack for the affected products.

Additional Information

Patch
** Gnu.pm.original 2004-10-17 18:44:43.000000000 +0100
--- Gnu.pm 2006-08-04 11:55:21.000000000 +0100
***************
*** 277,282 ****
--- 277,286 ----
my $self = shift;
my ($prompt, $preput) = @_;
+ # make sure the outstream fd inside the readline library is
+ # in sync (see http://bugs.debian.org/236018
+ $Attribs{outstream} = $Attribs{outstream};
+
# ornament support (now prompt only)
$prompt = ${$Attribs{term_set}}[0] . $prompt . ${$Attribs{term_set}}[1];)
=====

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  • Document ID:3382989
  • Creation Date: 27-Mar-2007
  • Modified Date:23-Feb-2021
    • SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop
    • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server

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