Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!lll-winken!uunet!mcsun!ukc!axion!delluk!tim From: tim@delluk.uucp (Tim Wright) Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386 Subject: Re: shl crashes SCO UNIX 3.2.1 Message-ID: Date: 19 Nov 90 17:30:35 GMT References: <8244@star.cs.vu.nl> <1990Nov17.213527.14378@ping.uucp> Sender: usenet@delluk.uucp (Usenet posting login) Organization: Dell Computer Corp., Bracknell, UK Lines: 31 In <1990Nov17.213527.14378@ping.uucp> gorpong@ping.uucp (Gordon C. Galligher) writes: >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. Yep, it was me. I thought the reference was to the original layers bugs. It appears that SCO "enhanced" these :-) Tim -- Tim Wright, Dell Computer Corp. (UK) | Email address Bracknell, Berkshire, RG12 1RW | Domain: tim@dell.co.uk Tel: +44-344-860456 | Uucp: ...!ukc!delluk!tim "What's the problem? You've got an IQ of six thousand, haven't you?"