zsh calls malloc related routines in signal handler which can lead to deadlock
Issue
- On one of our Rhel 6.2 server we have a zsh script which sometimes stops working.
- When we monitor this process with ps, it has a WCHAN value 'futex_wait'.
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6
- zsh
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