RSH (remote shell) - must all children die before remote part exits?

[Richard Tobin]

In article <21262 at mimsy.umd.edu> chris at mimsy.umd.edu (Chris Torek) writes:

>rsh $host -n "setenv DISPLAY $DISPLAY; exec $@ </dev/null >&/dev/null"

But beware of mutant csh-derivatives that fail to ensure that FSHIN etc
are closed when exec()ing.  I found this in a variant of tcsh recently.
How it crept in I don't know.

-- Richard


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