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

[Charles Yeomans <charles@declareSub.com>]

On Nov 11, 2009, at 1:37 PM, Joe Strout wrote:

> Navdeep Bains wrote:
>
> > 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.
> The workaround in some cases is to not call Shell.Close while the  
> shell is running -- you can just tell the command you're running to  
> exit (or otherwise wait for it to terminate) instead.
> But of course this may be difficult in some apps, depending on what  
> you're doing.

We worked around this problem by adding a Kill method to the Shell  
class.  You can use a second shell to run kill, or declare and call  
the corresponding C function to send a signal to the target process.
Charles Yeomans

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