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Subject: Re: Failing tsapd
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Date: 8 May 91 09:02:54 GMT
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"Ernest H. Hayden" wrote:

| Indeed!  You have the answer!  I tried it and the tsapd stays up
| just fine.
| 
| Now .. if I could just understand why it fixes it .... BTW .. do you
| believe this is a BUG in Sun's code or somewhere else? ((I won't be
| insulted.)
| 
| Thanx:	Ernie Hayden (SunFed, SE)
| 
| 	MIL06-07
| 	ehh@chanta.EBay.Sun.COM

I believe this to be a BUG in Sun`s code, and possibly POSIX (no info here).
The problem is that all of a sudden rc is being run with stdout/err attached
to /dev/console.  This means for isode things that the `autobackgrounding'
close, setpgrp, fork sequence is not invoked, and other things are suddenly
attached where they were detached.

I think it is a BUG, since it is a major change of semantics.  Perhaps
though, since it is documented, we should call it a feature. :-(  It
is a major gottcha when making the upgrade from Sunos 4.0.n to 4.1,
since things which used to work suddenly stop.