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From: "Sam Roberts" <sam@cogent.ca>
To: "rc" <rc@hawkwind.utcs.toronto.edu>
Subject: Re: rc not session leader?
Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2000 15:03:42 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <002701bfb144$78ca9ca0$1403a8c0@cogent.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4.3.1.2.20000428085436.00b3c4e0@mailhost.ocegr.fr>

> >Also, I can't call 'login' from an rc shell, strangely, it
> >complains about not being session leader. I'm quite baffled.
> 
> What kind of OS are you using? I can use "login" under solaris and 
> freebsd without any problems.

Russ Cox also tells me that login works fine under his system. I
kind of expected that rc was working fine everywhere else.

.............

And in the process of gathering the ps outputs to post here, I
just figured it out. Duh.

login has to be *execed*, not forked/and execed. So login is
a builtin shell alias for "exec login" in QNX's korn shell, so
login gets execed by the shell, the session leader and is happy.
I was trying to run login, so login was being execed by a forked
child of rc, NOT the session leader, and it was failing.

fn login { exec builtin login $* } seems appropriate here...

Thanks!
Sam




  parent reply	other threads:[~2000-04-28 20:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <sroberts@uniserve.com>
2000-04-26 15:02 ` building rc on QNX4 Sam Roberts
2000-04-27 16:56   ` Scott Schwartz
2000-04-27 20:41     ` Sam Roberts
2000-04-28  7:28       ` vrl (was: Re: building rc on QNX4) Gert-Jan Vons
2000-04-28 18:38         ` Sam Roberts
2000-05-02  8:16           ` Gert-Jan Vons
2000-04-28 19:03         ` Sam Roberts [this message]
2000-04-27 17:39   ` building rc on QNX4 Carlo Strozzi
2000-05-02 14:41     ` Tim Goodwin
2000-05-04 15:18       ` Carlo Strozzi
2000-05-08  8:29         ` Tim Goodwin
2000-05-08  8:58           ` Chris Siebenmann
2000-05-08  9:15             ` Tim Goodwin
2000-05-08 23:25               ` Stephen Tell
2000-05-10  0:37                 ` builtins Scott Schwartz
2000-05-12  7:22                   ` builtins Carlo Strozzi
2000-05-08 11:50           ` building rc on QNX4 David Luyer
2000-05-08 13:28           ` Carlo Strozzi

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