From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 745 invoked from network); 5 Nov 1998 15:48:45 -0000 Received: from math.gatech.edu (list@130.207.146.50) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 5 Nov 1998 15:48:45 -0000 Received: (from list@localhost) by math.gatech.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) id KAA28027; Thu, 5 Nov 1998 10:40:41 -0500 (EST) Resent-Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1998 10:40:41 -0500 (EST) From: "Bart Schaefer" Message-Id: <981105073845.ZM26328@candle.brasslantern.com> Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1998 07:38:45 -0800 In-Reply-To: Comments: In reply to Bousfield Peter "zsh 3.0.5 bug in Solaris 2.x" (Nov 5, 3:43pm) References: X-Mailer: Z-Mail (4.0b.820 20aug96) To: Bousfield Peter , "'zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu'" Subject: Re: zsh 3.0.5 bug in Solaris 2.x MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Resent-Message-ID: <"MLlAz3.0.sr6.vRSGs"@math> Resent-From: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/4559 X-Loop: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu Precedence: list Resent-Sender: zsh-workers-request@math.gatech.edu On Nov 5, 3:43pm, Bousfield Peter wrote: } Subject: zsh 3.0.5 bug in Solaris 2.x } } The following (extremely cut down for testing) /etc/zshenv is used: } #! /bin/zsh } export OSDESC=`/usr/bin/uname -sr | awk '{ printf("%s_%.1s",$1,$2)}'` } export GROUP=`id | cut -d\) -f2 cut -d\( -f2` } } Now the problem is that on occasion (that is a more than one in four } times) either (and sometimes both) of the environment variables do not } get set. } } Is this a known bug? It's a fairly recently discovered bug; see http://www.zsh.org/mla/users/1998/msg00661.html but you'll probably want to grab http://www.zsh.org/mla/zsh-users/18xx.tgz and extract file 1880 to get a clean copy of the patch. -- Bart Schaefer Brass Lantern Enterprises http://www.well.com/user/barts http://www.brasslantern.com