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-rw-r--r--helix-term/Cargo.toml1
-rw-r--r--helix-term/src/application.rs32
2 files changed, 28 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/helix-term/Cargo.toml b/helix-term/Cargo.toml
index bca567c2..279fdcf8 100644
--- a/helix-term/Cargo.toml
+++ b/helix-term/Cargo.toml
@@ -68,6 +68,7 @@ grep-searcher = "0.1.11"
[target.'cfg(not(windows))'.dependencies] # https://github.com/vorner/signal-hook/issues/100
signal-hook-tokio = { version = "0.3", features = ["futures-v0_3"] }
+libc = "0.2.132"
[build-dependencies]
helix-loader = { version = "0.6", path = "../helix-loader" }
diff --git a/helix-term/src/application.rs b/helix-term/src/application.rs
index 781e6fa7..1cec213c 100644
--- a/helix-term/src/application.rs
+++ b/helix-term/src/application.rs
@@ -40,10 +40,7 @@ use anyhow::{Context, Error};
use crossterm::{event::Event as CrosstermEvent, tty::IsTty};
#[cfg(not(windows))]
-use {
- signal_hook::{consts::signal, low_level},
- signal_hook_tokio::Signals,
-};
+use {signal_hook::consts::signal, signal_hook_tokio::Signals};
#[cfg(windows)]
type Signals = futures_util::stream::Empty<()>;
@@ -447,7 +444,32 @@ impl Application {
match signal {
signal::SIGTSTP => {
self.restore_term().unwrap();
- low_level::emulate_default_handler(signal::SIGTSTP).unwrap();
+
+ // SAFETY:
+ //
+ // - helix must have permissions to send signals to all processes in its signal
+ // group, either by already having the requisite permission, or by having the
+ // user's UID / EUID / SUID match that of the receiving process(es).
+ let res = unsafe {
+ // A pid of 0 sends the signal to the entire process group, allowing the user to
+ // regain control of their terminal if the editor was spawned under another process
+ // (e.g. when running `git commit`).
+ //
+ // We have to send SIGSTOP (not SIGTSTP) to the entire process group, because,
+ // as mentioned above, the terminal will get stuck if `helix` was spawned from
+ // an external process and that process waits for `helix` to complete. This may
+ // be an issue with signal-hook-tokio, but the author of signal-hook believes it
+ // could be a tokio issue instead:
+ // https://github.com/vorner/signal-hook/issues/132
+ libc::kill(0, signal::SIGSTOP)
+ };
+
+ if res != 0 {
+ let err = std::io::Error::last_os_error();
+ eprintln!("{}", err);
+ let res = err.raw_os_error().unwrap_or(1);
+ std::process::exit(res);
+ }
}
signal::SIGCONT => {
self.claim_term().await.unwrap();