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From: gorpong@ping.uucp (Gordon C. Galligher)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: shl crashes SCO UNIX 3.2.1
Summary: stty intr is the problem
Message-ID: <1990Nov17.213527.14378@ping.uucp>
Date: 17 Nov 90 21:35:27 GMT
References: <8244@star.cs.vu.nl>
Organization: The 23rd. Century
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In article <8244@star.cs.vu.nl> rvdp@cs.vu.nl (Ronald van der Pol) writes:
>I created shell layers with 'mkdev shl', started 'shl' and
>typed 'create foobar'. This crashed the system. Is this another
>one in the endless SCO bug list? Are panic messages saved in
>some kind of file???????? (sorry, I seemed logical to me :-)
>(Compaq systempro/20 MB RAM/SCO UNIX 3.2.1)

I have had the same problem on a 4 MB 80386.  I have narrowed it down to
'stty intr'.  Search in your .cshrc (or .profile) file for stty intr ...
If I remove them from the file, then I get a shell; and if I type:
	$ stty intr
	POOF
System reboots.  If I type 'tty' it tells me 'not a tty.'  According to
the manual page, shell layers are supposed to act exactly like a TTY.
Apparently they do not.

I have seen a followup to this mentioning something about "It is not SCO's
fault."  I beg to disagree.  I have used Interactive's 386/ix before, and
their shell layers work just fine.  SCO's is broken.

		-- Gordon.
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