Possible SunView bug under 4.1 ?
Dean Grover
grover at moon.hac.com
Fri Jul 13 10:38:39 AEST 1990
I have found a "difference" in the way 4.0.3 and 4.1 handle entries in the
SunView root menu.
If I add a line like
"TEST tool" shelltool -I "cd ~user ; who"
to my root menu, and select this menu entry, sunview goes into an infinite
loop. trace displays the following:
...
open ("/etc/passwd", 0, 0666) = 10
ioctl (10, 0x40125401, 0xf7ffd274) = -1 ENOTTY(Inappropriate ioctl for device)
fstat (10, 0xf7ffd2e8) = 0
read (10, "root:F/Jil7f7mcE7vw:0:1:Operator:".., 8192) = 1075
read (10, "", 8192) = 0
close (10) = 0
...(kill the sunview pid)
Under 4.0.3, this performed as expected. Note that changing the line to:
"TEST tool" shelltool -I "cd /home/user ; who" works fine.
This has been demonstrated on a Sun 4/260 and 4/370 under 4.1
Am I doing something wrong ? Or is it a bug ?
Dean Grover
Hughes Aircraft Co.
adgrover at hac2arpa.hac.com or grover at sed170.hac.com
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