Weird psql crash

Started by Christopher Kings-Lynnealmost 21 years ago4 messages
#1Christopher Kings-Lynne
chriskl@familyhealth.com.au

Hi,

1. Fire up psql.
2. Press Ctrl-4
3. Crash, core dump...

Chris

#2Tom Lane
tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us
In reply to: Christopher Kings-Lynne (#1)
Re: Weird psql crash

Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl@familyhealth.com.au> writes:

1. Fire up psql.
2. Press Ctrl-4
3. Crash, core dump...

SIGQUIT is supposed to do that.

regards, tom lane

#3Christopher Kings-Lynne
chriskl@familyhealth.com.au
In reply to: Tom Lane (#2)
Re: Weird psql crash

1. Fire up psql.
2. Press Ctrl-4
3. Crash, core dump...

SIGQUIT is supposed to do that.

Seems to be a libreadline thing:

#0 0x2827fd60 in sigprocmask () from /usr/lib/libc.so.4
#1 0x281f5adb in _rl_savestring () from /usr/lib/libreadline.so.4
#2 0xbfbfffac in ?? ()
#3 0x281f2254 in rl_read_key () from /usr/lib/libreadline.so.4
#4 0x28202e20 in readline_internal_char () from /usr/lib/libreadline.so.4
#5 0x28202f79 in readline_internal_char () from /usr/lib/libreadline.so.4
#6 0x28202fa9 in readline_internal_char () from /usr/lib/libreadline.so.4
#7 0x28202b70 in readline () from /usr/lib/libreadline.so.4
#8 0x804ee9c in gets_interactive (prompt=0x8074a00 "test=# ") at input.c:95
#9 0x804f702 in MainLoop (source=0x282ce0c0) at mainloop.c:153
#10 0x8051310 in main (argc=2, argv=0xbfbffc04) at startup.c:314

Chris

#4Tom Lane
tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us
In reply to: Christopher Kings-Lynne (#3)
Re: Weird psql crash

Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl@familyhealth.com.au> writes:

SIGQUIT is supposed to do that.

Seems to be a libreadline thing:

No, it's a built-in thing. See "man stty", "man tty(4)", "man termio"
or related topics depending on your platform. The point is that the
kernel terminal driver takes that as a command to send SIGQUIT to your
program, not much different from mapping control-C to SIGINT for
example. And the default handling for SIGQUIT is stop+dump core.

It's a feature, not a bug.

regards, tom lane