The tmux server can never block
On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 10:05:30AM -0700, Randy Stauner wrote: > yeah, my only knowledge of that stuff comes from my experience with > perl... > i believe perl's system() call does a fork, then in the child an exec() > and in the parent a wait() or waitpid() or something along those lines... > I'd definitely need to read up on it. > I'm sure with other forking going on elsewhere in the server it gets more > complicated. > On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 7:26 AM, Nicholas Marriott > <[1]nicholas.marri...@gmail.com> wrote: > > this is accurate, if-shell is asynchronous > > need to fix that sometime but it ain't easy > > On Sat, May 28, 2011 at 11:59:39AM -0700, Randy Stauner wrote: > > ** **I don't know too much about tmux internals but I'm going to take > a guess > > ** **here: > > ** **I think the if-shell command is forking and running > asynchronously > > ** **and tmux is creating the first window before that command returns > and sets > > ** **the global option. > > ** **Simply setting the option (with -g) does work as expected > (without the > > ** **if-shell)... > > ** **So I tried putting the if-shell line at the very top of my > tmux.conf. > > ** **I tried doing the same thing with both "set-option -g" and simply > > ** **"set-option"... > > ** **at first it appeared to work, but on retrying it seemed > inconsistent. > > ** ** sometimes the first window gets it, > > ** **sometimes it doesn't. **a second window usually seems to have it > (but not > > ** **always...) > > ** **I even grep a ps listing to make sure the tmux server is down so > that I'm > > ** **not getting a cached conf. > > ** **I tried putting a "sleep 9;" command in my if-shell and found > that my > > ** **windows were created as fast as they ever are, > > ** **but TERM was set to "screen" (no matter how many windows I > created) until > > ** **9 seconds had passed. > > ** **Then new windows got the new setting. > > ** **So it appears that if-shell runs asynchronously even though you > may not be > > ** **expecting that. > > ** **The run-shell command appears to operate the same way. > > ** **As a workaround you could put this TERM logic in your bashrc (or > > ** **rc/profile for whatever shell you use). > > ** **That's where I put it on my pc: I test if the terminfo db > supports > > ** **screen-256color and then change it. > > > > ** **I could certainly see it being handy to have a synchronous > version of (or > > ** **an option for) if-shell... > > ** **On Sat, May 28, 2011 at 10:38 AM, qwerty asdfg > <[1][2]bollo...@gmail.com> > > ** **wrote: > > > > ** ** **Hello there. > > ** ** **I am having issues with the if statements > > ** ** **I have a line in my .tmux.conf like this: > > ** ** **if '[ -n $DISPLAY ]' 'set -g default-terminal screen-256color' > > ** ** **But it only works if I open another window,else the terminal > is still > > ** ** **screen..Is there any way to fix this? > > ** ** > > **------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > ** ** **vRanger cuts backup time in half-while increasing security. > > ** ** **With the market-leading solution for virtual backup and > recovery, > > ** ** **you get blazing-fast, flexible, and affordable data > protection. > > ** ** **Download your free trial now. > > ** ** **[2][3]http://p.sf.net/sfu/quest-d2dcopy1 > > ** ** **_______________________________________________ > > ** ** **tmux-users mailing list > > ** ** **[3][4]tmux-users@lists.sourceforge.net > > ** ** **[4][5]https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/tmux-users > > > > References > > > > ** **Visible links > > ** **1. mailto:[6]bollo...@gmail.com > > ** **2. 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