From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from gatech.edu (gatech.edu [130.207.244.244]) by werple.net.au (8.7/8.7) with SMTP id IAA11821 for ; Wed, 11 Oct 1995 08:11:05 +1000 (EST) Received: from gauss (gauss.skiles.gatech.edu) by gatech.edu with SMTP id AA29946 (5.65c/Gatech-10.0-IDA for ); Tue, 10 Oct 1995 18:06:05 -0400 Received: by gauss (5.x/SMI-SVR4) id AA02653; Tue, 10 Oct 1995 18:02:39 -0400 Resent-Date: Tue, 10 Oct 1995 19:11:30 -0300 Old-Return-Path: Date: Tue, 10 Oct 1995 19:11:30 -0300 From: Carlos Carvalho Message-Id: <199510102211.TAA07935@snfep1.if.usp.br> To: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu (zsh-workers) Subject: Re: behaviour with rsh In-Reply-To: <199510102002.VAA04349@bolyai.cs.elte.hu> References: <199510102002.VAA04349@bolyai.cs.elte.hu> Resent-Message-Id: <"ri-Mz.0.Jf.-rkUm"@gauss> Resent-From: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/444 X-Loop: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu Precedence: list Resent-Sender: zsh-workers-request@math.gatech.edu Zoltan Hidvegi (hzoli@cs.elte.hu) wrote on 10 October 1995 21:02: >I think this is not zsh specific. My login shell is tcsh on the >Solaris box, and it has similar problems. Rsh has many problems >which casuses processes to hang. Just read an rsh manpage about a >few problems. > >I assume that the sun rshd waits for the cild and something else I >do not know while the linux rshd exits immediately if the child >closed all of the communication lines. Both is a reasonable >behaviour, but if depends on the rshd and zsh has nothing to do >here. Usually to start an rsh in the background, you should do >something like It certainly has to do with zsh. I was using an old version in a sun 4.1.2, and the command worked, even with hzoli-3 in linux. After I upgraded the sun version to hzoli-3 it stopped working. It may not be a fault of zsh, but it sure depends on it. Carlos