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From: bombadil@diku.dk (Kristian Nielsen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
Subject: Re: 1.3 Shell DeadLock
Keywords: bug Workbench1.3 Shell
Message-ID: <1991Jan23.153130.10588@odin.diku.dk>
Date: 23 Jan 91 15:31:30 GMT
References: <1991Jan17.182709.23562@odin.diku.dk> <17761@cbmvax.commodore.com>
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andy@cbmvax.commodore.com (Andy Finkel) writes:

>In article <1991Jan17.182709.23562@odin.diku.dk> bombadil@diku.dk (Kristian Nielsen) writes:
>>However, my problem is that sometimes the shell will deadlock immediately
>>after typing return on a command, but before loading the command from disk.
>>Sometimes the entire screen will tremble for a split second before the crash.
>>The deadlock semms to have nothing to do with the command that locks up, or
>>the previous one. What happens is that a command sequence like this:
>>
>>	GetDF1 DF0:		;scriptfile, basically diskcopy df0: rad:
>>	cd ...
>>	assign...
>>	copy ...
>>	run ...
>>
>>will cause the deadlock, while changing the first line to

>I'm not quite sure what you mean by deadlock ... you you mean the
>machine hangs and the mouse doesn't move ?  Do you mean crash, ie GURU ?
>Do you mean get a software error task held ?

>>
>>	s:GetDF1 DF0:

>My first thought is you have something else called GetDF1 somewhere.
>Do a which GetDF1 and see what turns up.

With deadlock I just meant that the shell process stops executing commands
entered into the cli window - it probably isn't reading them at all, stuck in
a Wait() for example. What I was trying to describe was that the error is
somehow related to the way the shell searches the path, so that specifying
a path relative to the current directory (ie. absolute) removes the problem.

      Kristian

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