R-alpha: lbeta, ctrl-C and crashes

[Kurt Hornik]

>>>>> Peter Dalgaard BSA writes:

> Kurt Hornik <Kurt.Hornik@ci.tuwien.ac.at> writes:
>> Are we talking about `while (1) { print("whatever") } RET ... CTRL-C'
>> and then again and again?  As said, works perfectly under Debian 1.3
>> with a 2.0.27 kernel.

> 2nd time around, that command loops unstoppably here. 

> Redhat 4.1/2.0.28
 
> $ ldd R/bin/R.binary 
>         libSM.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libSM.so.6.0
>         libICE.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libICE.so.6.0
>         libX11.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6.1
>         libf2c.so.0 => /usr/lib/libf2c.so.0.20
>         libdl.so.1 => /lib/libdl.so.1.7.14
>         libreadline.so.2 => /usr/lib/libreadline.so.2.0
>         libtermcap.so.2 => /lib/libtermcap.so.2.0.8
>         libm.so.5 => /lib/libm.so.5.0.8
>         libc.so.5 => /lib/libc.so.5.4.23

> This is strange. What libs are used by Debian? And on Thomas' system?

Hmm.  I get

hornik@aragorn:~/Work/misc$ ldd /usr/local/lib/R/bin/R.binary 
        libSM.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libSM.so.6		(6.0)
        libICE.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libICE.so.6	(6.0)
        libX11.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6	(6.1)
        libdl.so.1 => /lib/libdl.so.1			(1.8.10)
        libreadline.so.2 => /lib/libreadline.so.2	(2.1)
        libm.so.5 => /lib/libm.so.5			(5.0.8)
        libc.so.5 => /lib/libc.so.5			(5.4.23)
        libncurses.so.3.0 => /lib/libncurses.so.3.0	(3.0)

(I added the full version numbers manually.)

The obvious difference is that Debian uses ncurses instead of termcap.

I checked  again a few minutes ago, because Fritz was not sure about the
whole thing either ...

Very interesting ...

-k
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