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-[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]]
+[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2009, 2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]]
[[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable
id="license" text="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this
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[[!tag open_issue_hurd]]
-There must be some blocking / dead-locking (?) problem in `term`:
+There must be some blocking / dead-locking (?) problem in `term`.
+
+[[!toc]]
+
+
+# Original Findings
# w | grep [t]sch
tschwing p1 192.168.10.60: Tue 8PM 0:03 2172 /bin/bash
@@ -98,3 +103,23 @@ Have a freshly started shell blocking on such a `term` instance.
[New Thread 1766.6]
Reading symbols from /lib/libhurdbugaddr.so.0.3...Reading symbols from /usr/lib/debug/lib/libhurdbugaddr.so.0.3...
[System doesn't respond anymore, but no kernel crash.]
+
+---
+
+The very same behavior is still observable as of 2011-03-24.
+
+Next: rebooted; on console started root shell, screen, a few spare windows; as
+user started GDB test suite, noticed the PTY it's using; in a root shell
+started GDB (the system one, for `.debug` stuff) on `/hurd/term`, `set
+noninvasive on`, attach to the *term* that GDB is using.
+
+
+# Formal Verification
+
+This issue may be a simple programming error, or it may be more complicated.
+
+Methods of [[formal_verification]] should be applied to confirm that there is
+no error in `/hurd/term`'s logic itself. There are tools for formal
+verification/[[code_analysis]] that can likely help here.
+
+There is a [[!FF_project 277]][[!tag bounty]] on this task.