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macos: `ps -ef | grep "test"` in eshell beeps

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Message #26 received at 21498 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>
Cc: 21498 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Marcin Borkowski <mbork <at> mbork.pl>,
 Sum Proxy <sum.proxy <at> gmail.com>
Subject: Re: bug#21498: macos: `ps -ef | grep "test"` in eshell beeps
Date: Thu, 02 Dec 2021 10:28:20 +0100

Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se> writes:

> The recipe can in my case be simplified to:
>
> 0. emacs -Q
> 1. M-x eshell
> 2. echo foo | grep foo
>
> Results: I see the line "foo" printed, then it stalls until I kill it
> with C-c.
>
> I never see the beep the OP talks about, but I see the same stalling
> as above when I say 'ps -ef | grep "test"'.
>
> Perhaps this is caused by some difference between BSD grep and GNU
> grep.

I re-tested this in Emacs 29 with the current Macos, and the bug is
still present there.

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