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From: neideck@kaputt.enet.dec.com (Burkhard Neidecker-Lutz)
Subject: Re: tcsh and Ultrix 4.2
Message-ID: <1991Jun7.081957.14087@pa.dec.com>
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Organization: CEC Karlsruhe
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Date: Fri, 7 Jun 91 08:19:57 GMT
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There is a bug in tcsh that is triggered under Ultrix 4.2. The 4.2
prompter sets the close-on-exec flags on file descriptors 0,1 and 2
and tcsh gets confused when it tries to get around the closed descriptors.
(i.e. the reopening code is broken). My login shell is tcsh under
4.2, but we patched tcsh. I didn't do the patch, I will have to check
with the author of it whether it's ok to post it.


				Burkhard Neidecker-Lutz
				Digital CEC Karlsruhe
				Project NESTOR