Re: [Bug-readline] terminal corruption with spawned ruby processes

[Chet Ramey]

On 4/11/17 5:22 PM, Eric Thompson wrote:
> Hi all, 
>    I ran into a possible problem in readline developing a library for Rake
> to aid in managing and launching processes. 
> 
> basically, if you use (ruby) Process.spawn or other ways to launch a
> subprocess that don't detach and that process inherits the stdin default
> pipe of the parent, the terminal input gets corrupted before hitting the
> child process (if that child is using readline).

All indications are that you have multiple processes simultaneously
attempting to read from stdin.

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