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From: kent@ssbell.IMD.Sterling.COM (Kent B. Landfield)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: X11R4 - A/UX fixes and comments
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Date: 12 Jan 90 01:09:24 GMT
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Here are some comments and fixes for the X11R4 A/UX release (patch level 0):
[sorry these aren't patches, I don't have the original files handy]

This was done on an A/UX 1.1 machine and compiled with gcc 1.35 as available
on anise.acc.com and mthvax.cs.uflorida.edu.

Problems:

#1:	Allows UTMP entries to be done right.  In the same blow, this
	also bypasses the problem that caused xterm to core-dump when using
	-ut (or setting the utmpInhibit resource).  This does not *fix*
	that problem, it just doesn't occur when using SYSV utmp routines.

#2:	SystemV *cannot* execve shell scripts directly,  the code to emulate
	the Berkeley kernel #!/bin/whatever convention was added to session.c,
	but it was never called.

#3:	bsdinst.sh doesn't work, I haven't checked why, just use bsdinstall
	which is supplied in the distribution under ddx/macII/bsdinst.sh

#4:	xinit doesn't pass arguments to the X server properly
	i.e. xinit -- XmacII -logo -v -screen 1 -depth 8 causes the server
	to come back with a help message.

Fixes:

#1
mit/clients/xterm/xterm.c:  line 82
add "#define HAS_UTMP_SYSV" after the #ifdef macII

#2
mit/clients/xdm/session.c: lines 332, 340, and 422
change every occurance of execve(argument1, argument2, argument3)
to read execute (argument2, argument3)

#3
use /etc/bsdinstall instead of bsdinst.sh as the install program
If it's too late to fix your config script, just rename bsdinst.sh
to something else and ln -s /etc/bsdinstall bsdinst.sh.

#4
I haven't fixed this one, I just switched to using xdm instead.
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