From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from euclid.skiles.gatech.edu (list@euclid.skiles.gatech.edu [130.207.146.50]) by melb.werple.net.au (8.7.5/8.7.3/2) with ESMTP id UAA02321 for ; Thu, 6 Jun 1996 20:13:29 +1000 (EST) Received: (from list@localhost) by euclid.skiles.gatech.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) id FAA15719; Thu, 6 Jun 1996 05:58:15 -0400 (EDT) Resent-Date: Thu, 6 Jun 1996 05:58:15 -0400 (EDT) From: Anthony Heading Message-Id: <199606060956.KAA22700@gmp-etpres1.uk.jpmorgan.com> Subject: Re: Problem: 2.6.b19, rsh/remsh on Ultrix 4.4 To: berd@desert.ihep.su Date: Thu, 6 Jun 1996 10:56:20 +0100 (BST) Cc: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu In-Reply-To: <199606060831.MAA08686@desert.ihep.su> from "Eugene B. Berdnikov" at Jun 6, 96 12:31:11 pm MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Resent-Message-ID: <"7cMe01.0.Xr3.skgjn"@euclid> Resent-From: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/1273 X-Loop: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu Precedence: list Resent-Sender: zsh-workers-request@math.gatech.edu > 1. The rsh/remsh hangs > ------------------- > > When I want to start a process on remote machine with the command like > > > rsh dxbec -l berd 'DISPLAY=forest.ihep.su:0.0 \ > /usr/bin/X11/xterm &/dev/null & \ > jobs -l ; echo done $$.' > > the remote shell should terminate with xterm disconnected. Try defining RSH_BUG_WORKAROUND > 2. The cd/pushd behavior > ------------------------ > > One my user complaints that when autopushd and pushdminus options are set, > and pushdtohome is not set, then `cd' builtin without arguments in 2.6-beta19 > always returns to home, but not into the previous directory, as it was in > 2.6-beta2. However, `pushd' without argument works right. Yes, an incompatible change. But the new behaviour is more consistent with what one would expect. Maybe there's an argument for creating a new option -- it should have been there in the first place instead of PUSHDTOHOME. You can, I think, emulate the old behaviour by aliasing cd=pushd Anthony