es 0.7: ^C at prompt

[Tony Sloane <tony@riker.cs.colorado.edu>]

I haven't seen this one reported by anyone else, so:

On a Sparcstation 2 running SunOS 4.1.2 with es 0.7 compiled with gcc 2.2.2, I
get an assertion failure if I type ^C.  It stops whatever is running and then
I get the message.  Eg.

-- ls -lg /etc
total 2263
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root     staff          10 Jun 24 18:54 adm -> ../var/adm
-rw-r--r--  1 root     staff      455044 Oct 19 01:50 aliases
-rw-rw-rw-  1 root     staff        4096 Oct 20 02:03 aliases.dir
-rw-rw-rw-  1 root     staff     1867776 Oct 20 02:03 aliases.pag
-rw-rw-rw-  1 root     staff           4 Oct  1 22:14 amd.pid
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root     staff          14 Jun 24 18:54 arp -> ../usr/etc/arp
-rw-r--r--  1 root     staff        4061 Aug 25 16:39 bootparams
-rw-r--r--  1 root     staff           2 Jul 10 09:17 bootparams-
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root     staff          16 Jun 24 18:54^C
gc.c:344: assertion failed (gcblocked > 0)

and the shell aborts.

This happens every time without fail.  Let me know if you need info from the
core dump.

Tony

PS.  Are there any plans to make it possible to get at the ~user mechanism in
some way?  I have a machine that many people don't have logins on but that has
access to their home directories via amd/NFS.  Thus a passwd file mechanism
doesn't work for most people in the dept.  I'd like to (say) be able to define
a function that gets called when doing ~ expansion.