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From: Vinnie Shelton  <shelton@icd.teradyne.com>
To: pws@ifh.de (Peter William Stephenson)
Cc: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu (Zsh hackers list)
Subject: Re: bug in zsh 2.6 beta 11
Date: Tue, 07 Nov 1995 12:54:53 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <9511071754.AA17872@spacely.afive> (raw)
In-Reply-To: pws's message of Tue, 07 Nov 1995 16:42:13 +0100. <9511071542.AA01774@sgi.ifh.de>

In message <9511071542.AA01774@sgi.ifh.de>, Peter William Stephenson wrote:
>According to kpc:

>O.K., I can now confirm this... it's a classic exit-instead-of-_exit
>bug AGAIN --- I fixed this just a couple of months ago and the _exit I
>put into execcmd() has mysteriously vanished from the face of the
>earth.  (I'm pretty sure it was the same bug, apologies if it was
>something slightly different which became redundant.)  The subshell
>forked to do the `fix ...` was calling exit(), which messed up the
>files for the parent shell.  (This is going to cause apparently random
>inexplicable bugs on all sorts of SYSV-like machines until it's
>re-fixed.)

I was having big problems under Solaris 2.3 until I applied
this patch.  In particular $(whence foo) in my init scripts was
bombing.  Thanks, Peter.

--Vin


  reply	other threads:[~1995-11-07 18:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1995-11-07 10:59 bug in zsh 2.6 beta 11: xkeysymdb kpc
1995-11-07 12:55 ` P.Stephenson
1995-11-07 15:42 ` bug in zsh 2.6 beta 11 Peter William Stephenson
1995-11-07 17:54   ` Vinnie Shelton [this message]
1995-11-07 20:01   ` Richard Coleman
1995-11-09  2:42   ` kpc
1995-11-09  2:52     ` Richard Coleman
1995-11-09  3:20       ` kpc

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