Using ksh for command escapes from UA (UNIXPC)

Robert E. Stampfli res at cbnews.ATT.COM
Mon Oct 31 03:38:51 AEST 1988


In article <2507 at rtech.rtech.com> ralph at rtech.rtech.com (Ralph Harnden) writes:
>When using "!command" to invoke commands from UA windows, it seems that UA
>fork/exec's /usr/lib/ua/uasetx, passing the parameters "/bin/sh -c command".
>Uasetx, in turn, seems to fork/exec the shell (first parameter) to invoke
>the command.  And the shell, in turn, fork/exec's the command.  
>
[ description of how to modify above pgms to use ksh ]
>
>Anybody:  Is there an easier way?  If not, I hope this helps....

I just moved /bin/sh and linked /bin/ksh as /bin/sh.  Seriously, I have yet to
find one thing that *doesn't* work because of this.

Rob Stampfli
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