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Running touch panicks

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Assessment

Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
45/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
typescript, vscode, wasm

Research direction

Start by reproducing touch a in the vscode-wasm shell and inspect the attached screenshot for the failure context. Trace the command's handling until the shell-bricking behavior is located; done means touch a completes without bricking the shell.

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Description

bug

Repro of running touch a is reliable for me, it bricks the shell

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Dominant language
TypeScript
Stars
456
Forks
42
Avg merge
18h 6m
Merged PRs (30d)
4

Getting set up

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First steps

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