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From: dan@rna.UUCP (Dan Ts'o)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Ksh Breaks With Mt. Xinu Kernel
Message-ID: <133@rna.UUCP>
Date: 18 Feb 88 06:05:24 GMT
References: <18@uvaarpa.virginia.edu> <7270@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Reply-To: dan@rna.UUCP (Dan Ts'o)
Organization: Rockefeller University Neurobiology
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In article <18@uvaarpa.virginia.edu> mer6g@uvaarpa.Virginia.EDU (Marc E. Rouleau) writes:
)-Recently we replaced the 4.3BSD kernel on a MicroVax with the enhanced
)-4.3BSD kernel from Mt. Xinu.  ...
)-Anyway, ksh, which we ported over from our AT&T toolchest, no longer
)-works very well.  In particular, the ENV variable (ENV=.kshrc) is broken.
)-Upon login, ksh executes the user's .profile, but not the .kshrc.
)-Also, history doesn't work at all, even when you set the HISTFILE variable.

	Your copy of ksh could still be using dup(fd|DUPFLAG, fd1) rather than
dup2(). Check for occurances of DUPFLAG and replace with dup2() calls.