tcsh and Ultrix 4.2

[Brian White]

In article <1991Jun7.081957.14087 at pa.dec.com> neideck at kaputt.enet.dec.com (Burkhard Neidecker-Lutz) writes:
>
>There is a bug in tcsh that is triggered under Ultrix 4.2. The 4.2
>prompter sets the close-on-exec flags on file descriptors 0,1 and 2
>and tcsh gets confused when it tries to get around the closed descriptors.
>(i.e. the reopening code is broken). My login shell is tcsh under
>4.2, but we patched tcsh. I didn't do the patch, I will have to check
>with the author of it whether it's ok to post it.
>
>
>				Burkhard Neidecker-Lutz
>				Digital CEC Karlsruhe
>				Project NESTOR

Any followup on this, Burkhard? I'm currently "exec"ing tcsh in .login on our
5000 and would like a more elegant solution :^).


Brian White, System Manager
New Jersey Institute of Technology
brw at hertz.njit.edu brw at njit.edu