0.8.8.16:

[sbcl.git] / src / code / condition.lisp

diff --git a/src/code/condition.lisp b/src/code/condition.lisp
index a62586a..a441310 100644 (file)
--- a/src/code/condition.lisp
+++ b/src/code/condition.lisp
@@ -682,6 +682,17 @@
        (let (lineno colno)
         (when (and pos
                    (< pos sb!xc:array-dimension-limit)
+                   ;; KLUDGE: lseek() (which is what FILE-POSITION
+                   ;; reduces to on file-streams) is undefined on
+                   ;; "some devices", which in practice means that it
+                   ;; can claim to succeed on /dev/stdin on Darwin
+                   ;; and Solaris.  This is obviously bad news,
+                   ;; because the READ-SEQUENCE below will then
+                   ;; block, not complete, and the report will never
+                   ;; be printed.  As a workaround, we exclude
+                   ;; interactive streams from this attempt to report
+                   ;; positions.  -- CSR, 2003-08-21
+                   (not (interactive-stream-p error-stream))
                    (file-position error-stream :start))
           (let ((string
                  (make-string pos