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Re: OS X 10.6.2 causes hangs in Shell set to Mode 2

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Subject: Re: OS X 10.6.2 causes hangs in Shell set to Mode 2
From: Navdeep Bains <lists@bainsware.com>
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2009 10:28:07 -0800
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Hello,

I'm glad I'm not the only seeing this issue. The hang is on the Shell.Close 
call, which in turn calls the POSIX "close" function. Mode 1 Shells exhibit the 
same behavior.

I haven't been able to find any workarounds.

Thanks,
Navdeep Bains
Bains Software

On Nov 11, 2009, at 7:36 AM, Dennis Birch wrote:

> I stumbled on a big problem after upgrading my laptop to OS X 10.6.2 last 
> night.
> 
> Trying to close a shell set to Mode 2 causes an application to hang.
> 
> To see it for yourself, add a shell named "sh" to a window, set its
> Mode to 2 and add this code to the Window's Open event handler:
> 
> sh.execute "bash"
> 
> Then add a Pushbutton with this in the Action event handler:
> 
> sh.WriteLine "exit"
> sh.Close
> 
> Run it and click the Pushbutton.


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