Re: [Bug-readline] SIGSEGV in _rl_dispatch_callback()

[Chet Ramey]

On 3/7/14, 8:50 PM, Anatol Pomozov wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> There are ipython bug reports both from Arch and Gentoo users:
> 
> https://github.com/ipython/ipython/issues/5286
> https://github.com/ipython/ipython/issues/5262
> https://github.com/ipython/ipython/issues/5260
> 
> ipython developer says it is not related to ipython and most likely
> readline or python bug.

I'm sure it's not an ipython bug; ipython doesn't call readline directly.
The problem is that the multikey state is left on when the key sequence
context is disposed.  I suspect a signal, but can't test this directly.
One difference between readline-6.2 and readline-6.3 is that readline-6.3
runs much less code (as little as possible) in a signal handler context.
Maybe the python code assumes too much about readline's signal handling
behavior.  It may be a readline bug, but only python triggers it -- it
has to be some interaction between the two.

Chet
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