4.2 csh signal related bug
PAD Powell [Admin]
padpowell at wateng.UUCP
Mon Feb 27 05:01:36 AEST 1984
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From phil at sequent.UUCP Wed Dec 31 19:00:00 1969
Subject: 4.2 csh signal related bug
I have on occasion run across what I believe to be a bug
in 4.2 csh. The symptoms are that when you type a command and
hit return it starts up the program but immediately blurbs out
some message about "Reset pgrp from # to #" and sends a Hangup to
the process. Once this occurs you are hosed although you can
sometimes get a few things to run (ie, you can type ls and 1 out
of 5 times it runs without the Reset message).
As near as I can tell, this behaviour occurs just around either
having just typed ^Z or my interrupt character which leads me to
believe it may be a signal related problem. Two questions, why
does this only happen to me (nobody else here has seen it) and
what is it?
I have observed this under 4.1 csh also. The following erroneous
input, combined with hitting "break" while it is printing error messages
seems to cause the same effect.
repeat 10 (fortune; sleep 10)
Interesting, eh?
Patrick Powell
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