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From: richard@aiai.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: RSH (remote shell) - must all children die before remote part exits?
Message-ID: <1460@skye.ed.ac.uk>
Date: 14 Dec 89 15:05:09 GMT
References: <1035@anasaz.UUCP> <21262@mimsy.umd.edu>
Reply-To: richard@aiai.UUCP (Richard Tobin)
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In article <21262@mimsy.umd.edu> chris@mimsy.umd.edu (Chris Torek) writes:

>rsh $host -n "setenv DISPLAY $DISPLAY; exec $@ </dev/null >&/dev/null"

But beware of mutant csh-derivatives that fail to ensure that FSHIN etc
are closed when exec()ing.  I found this in a variant of tcsh recently.
How it crept in I don't know.

-- Richard


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