Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!sdd.hp.com!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!aplcen!super.ece.jhu.edu!lawc From: lawc@super.ece.jhu.edu (Chiu-Tai Law) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mips Subject: Re: Patches to RISC/OS 4.5 for MIT X11R4 Message-ID: <1991Feb21.160803.5157@aplcen.apl.jhu.edu> Date: 21 Feb 91 16:08:03 GMT References: <1991Feb15.211308.27835@convex.com> <1991Feb18.222802.2669@cs.ubc.ca> Sender: news@aplcen.apl.jhu.edu (USENET News System) Organization: Johns Hopkins University Lines: 21 In article k2@bl.physik.tu-muenchen.de (Klaus Steinberger) writes: >pphillip@cs.ubc.ca (Peter Phillips) writes: > >>If an xterm is started from a login which has no controlling tty (like >>from /usr/ucb/rsh) then the xterm will not get a controlling tty. The >>lack of a controlling tty breaks programs like "su" and "script". >>This problem doesn't occur under other UNIX machines running X11R4 nor >>does it occur using xterm from RiscWindows 3.21. > >I'm also running into this problem, I'm very very interested in a >solution. I have no idea, why this happened. > I have talked to Mips at CA a long while ago. However, I cannot file a bug report (it is difficult to isolate the bug and give an SHORT example). One way to work around is to compile xterm in SYSV environment. The bug has been persisted from OS 4.0 to 4.51 (do not know about 4.52). -- Chiu Tai Law lawc@super.ece.jhu.edu (301) 338-7976 Brought to you by Super Global Mega Corp .com