From owner-freebsd-bugs Fri Jun 23 23:26:32 1995 Return-Path: bugs-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id XAA16958 for bugs-outgoing; Fri, 23 Jun 1995 23:26:32 -0700 Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id XAA16952 for ; Fri, 23 Jun 1995 23:26:29 -0700 Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de with SMTP (5.67b+/DEC-Ultrix/4.3) id AA25761; Sat, 24 Jun 1995 08:26:24 +0200 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id IAA18169; Sat, 24 Jun 1995 08:26:24 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.9) id HAA02575; Sat, 24 Jun 1995 07:59:45 +0200 From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199506240559.HAA02575@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: Xterms hang after open? To: root@deadline.snafu.de (Andreas S. Wetzel) Date: Sat, 24 Jun 1995 07:59:44 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: from "Andreas S. Wetzel" at Jun 23, 95 07:34:19 pm Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 691 Sender: bugs-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Andreas S. Wetzel wrote: > > Also it seems that this problem does not occur, when using a shell other > than the tcsh shell (I just tried it out with an sh shell, and the window > just popped up and was there). Again... this is no problem I'm having > sinc yesterday, but it is a problem I'm having since nearly 2.0R. How long's your $path variable? Mine contains 10 elements, and i've never noticed such behaviour. tcsh is known to perform some (rather inefficient) lookups along the path in order to build the internal tables on startup. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)