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From: chet@odin.INS.CWRU.Edu (Chet Ramey)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: bash for SGI
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Date: 30 Apr 91 18:54:36 GMT
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[Talking about my version of bash 1.07]

>Right, pipes don't work.  I'm a non-smoker, so I missed that.  So I'll
>echo the original request, anyone have a working copy of bash?
>
>Pipes vanish into the background.  If you run fg you hang.

A detailed analysis of this bug, which is the result of a race condition
caused by Posix process group semantics, appears in gnu.bash.bug.

I fixed it, and sent the fix on to Brian so that it will appear in the
official 1.07 whenever that is released.  If I ever make another release,
it will be in there, too.

Chet
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