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From: Phil Pennock <phil@athenaeum.demon.co.uk>
To: schaefer@brasslantern.com (Bart Schaefer)
Cc: zsh-users@math.gatech.edu
Subject: Re: Backticks In zshenv
Date: Tue, 20 Oct 1998 20:30:52 +0100 (BST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <199810201930.UAA00379@athenaeum.demon.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <981020095542.ZM5494@candle.brasslantern.com> from Bart Schaefer at "Oct 20, 98 09:55:42 am"

Typing away merrily, Bart Schaefer produced the immortal words:
> I ended up replacing `id -u` with $EUID and haven't seen any further
> problems.  I'd assumed it was something about the "id" program.
> 
> I suspect zsh is getting some kind of a signal -- perhaps SIGWINCH? --
> which is interrupting the read on the command substitution.

This makes sense.  When using zsh on Solaris, with a hack to start it
from /bin/sh, I found that resizing xterms during logon would sometimes
fail to set COLUMNS and LINES; I put this down to the weird setup and
just made sure I didn't resize.

I think it would have been: eval $(resize)

HTH
-- 
--> Phil Pennock ; GAT d- s+:+ a22 C++(++++) UL++++/I+++/S+++/H+ P++@ L+++
E-@ W(+) N>++ o !K w--- O>+ M V !PS PE Y+ PGP+ t-- 5++ X+ R !tv b++>+++ DI+ D+
G+ e+ h* !r y?


  reply	other threads:[~1998-10-20 19:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1998-10-20 14:35 Daniel Rigal
1998-10-20 16:55 ` Bart Schaefer
1998-10-20 19:30   ` Phil Pennock [this message]
1998-10-20 19:54   ` PATCH: " Bart Schaefer
1998-10-20 20:36   ` Sweth Chandramouli
1998-10-21  7:33   ` Goran Larsson

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