Comment 2 for bug 1003938

Unfortunately, increasing status refresh interval only postpones the problems, as the processes are still running in the background. There is command running:

    /bin/sh /home6/wesolekn/opt/byobu/bin/byobu-status tmux_left

which is waiting for a child to fininsh:

    tmux set -g status-left-length 52

strace-ing that 'tmux set' command shows it hanging on

    epoll_wait(3,

where the descriptor 3 points to

    anon_inode:[eventpoll]

As a result, no status bar is displayed and the list of processes is growing.

Because the bug is pretty well locatable (doesn't show up in 5.17, occurs in 5.18), maybe I could bisect the commits to locate the exact cause? Could you please show me a short script to do so, as I don't have bazaar experience.