From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pasanda.cygnus.co.uk ([194.130.39.3]) by hawkwind.utcs.utoronto.ca with SMTP id <24733>; Fri, 6 Feb 1998 17:13:20 -0500 Received: (qmail 1005 invoked by alias); 6 Feb 1998 17:45:27 -0000 Received: (qmail 995 invoked from network); 6 Feb 1998 17:45:26 -0000 Received: from nan.cygnus.co.uk (tgoodwin@194.130.39.19) by dns.cygnus.co.uk with SMTP; 6 Feb 1998 17:45:26 -0000 In-Reply-To: <19980205050130.12464.qmail@pantransit.smar.reptiles.org> To: smarry@pantransit.smar.reptiles.org Subject: Re: "rc" shell maintainer? Cc: rc@hawkwind.utcs.toronto.edu, broman@nosc.mil, culliton@clark.net Date: Fri, 6 Feb 1998 12:45:04 -0500 From: Tim Goodwin Message-ID: > One definite bug (reported to Tim Goodwin) will cause rc to spin calling > wait(2) if you do: > > {ls & wait} | cat Fixed in the development version. > There is another problem with signal handling that is a little more > complicated. When I upgraded to the 2.0.33 kernel, rc began hanging > occasionally when I interrupted programs, I have a fix for this, but I'm not completely happy with it yet. When I am, and I've fixed a couple of other minor problems, I'll cut a 1.5b3 release for y'all to check out. Thanks for the bug report. Tim.