zsh 3.0.5 bug in Solaris 2.x

zsh 3.0.5 bug in Solaris 2.x

[Bousfield Peter]

Hello,

I am experiencing a problem with zsh 3.0.5 and dtterm under Solaris
2.5.1

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`

My login shell is /bin/zsh and I start a dtterm by running
/usr/dt/bin/dtterm

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. 

The problem does not seem to (I couldn't get it to do it) with xterms.
Also the problem does not seem to exist with an earlier version
(2.6-beta4)
of zsh.

I compiled zsh 3.0.5 using gcc 2.8.1, and am using a SPARC Ultra-2.

Is this a known bug?

peter bousfield
wmc resources ltd

Re: zsh 3.0.5 bug in Solaris 2.x

[Bart Schaefer]

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.

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