From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from gatech.edu (gatech.edu [130.207.244.244]) by werple.mira.net.au (8.6.12/8.6.9) with SMTP id GAA21372 for ; Thu, 24 Aug 1995 06:18:39 +1000 Received: from math (math.skiles.gatech.edu) by gatech.edu with SMTP id AA26572 (5.65c/Gatech-10.0-IDA for ); Wed, 23 Aug 1995 16:19:41 -0400 Received: by math (5.x/SMI-SVR4) id AA28639; Wed, 23 Aug 1995 16:14:01 -0400 Resent-Date: Wed, 23 Aug 1995 16:13:10 -0400 Old-Return-Path: Message-Id: <9508232013.AA29782@redwood.skiles.gatech.edu> X-Mailer: exmh version 1.5.3 12/28/94 To: Jerzy Sobczyk Cc: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu Subject: Re: No TTY after su -- can't edit history! In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 23 Aug 1995 22:00:07 +0200." <95Aug23.220012+0200met_dst.245856-4+1@csd.ia.pw.edu.pl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Wed, 23 Aug 1995 16:13:10 -0400 From: Richard Coleman Resent-Message-Id: <"OQBIC.0.P_6.7muEm"@math> Resent-From: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/341 X-Loop: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu Precedence: list Resent-Sender: zsh-workers-request@math.gatech.edu > I have just got zsh-2.6-beta10 succesfully compiled it under Solaris 2.3 > and after playing a while I have noticed following feature: > when I do following steps: > 1. su > 2. su - user > 3. zsh > then I can not edit the history. > As far as I could trace the problem it comes from the fact that > in step 2 Solaris does not change the owner of /dev/pts/? and as a result > in zsh the symbol TTY is empty and can not be set. > I am not sure if this should be fixed in zsh or in Solaris. > Jerzy Yes, this is a known bug. It will be fixed in beta11. Beta11 should be available in a couple of weeks. Richard Coleman coleman@math.gatech.edu