From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 2241 invoked from network); 20 Oct 1998 19:30:48 -0000 Received: from math.gatech.edu (list@130.207.146.50) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 20 Oct 1998 19:30:48 -0000 Received: (from list@localhost) by math.gatech.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) id PAA09222; Tue, 20 Oct 1998 15:23:32 -0400 (EDT) Resent-Date: Tue, 20 Oct 1998 15:23:24 -0400 (EDT) From: Phil Pennock Message-Id: <199810201930.UAA00379@athenaeum.demon.co.uk> Subject: Re: Backticks In zshenv In-Reply-To: <981020095542.ZM5494@candle.brasslantern.com> from Bart Schaefer at "Oct 20, 98 09:55:42 am" To: schaefer@brasslantern.com (Bart Schaefer) Date: Tue, 20 Oct 1998 20:30:52 +0100 (BST) Cc: zsh-users@math.gatech.edu X-Disclaimer-1: Any views expressed in this message, where not explicitly X-Disclaimer-2: attributed otherwise, are mine and mine alone. Such views X-Disclaimer-3: do not necessarily coincide with those of any organisation X-Disclaimer-4: or company with which I am or have been affiliated. X-Personality: INTJ X-Phase-of-Moon: The Moon is Waning Crescent (2% of Full) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL37 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Resent-Message-ID: <"7Att62.0.ZF2.hCEBs"@math> Resent-From: zsh-users@math.gatech.edu X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/1878 X-Loop: zsh-users@math.gatech.edu X-Loop: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu Precedence: list Resent-Sender: zsh-workers-request@math.gatech.edu 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?