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Date: Fri, 23 Jun 1995 20:42:09 +0200
From: Joerg Wunsch <joerg>
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To: hsu, joerg, freebsd-bugs
Subject: Changed information for PR bin/542
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Synopsis: typeahead fails after rsh

State-Changed-From-To: open-closed
State-Changed-By: joerg
State-Changed-When: Fri Jun 23 20:40:27 MET DST 1995
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The described behaviour is intentional:

~To: Jeffrey Hsu <hsu@freefall.cdrom.com>
~cc: freebsd-bugs@freefall.cdrom.com
~Subject: Re: bin/542: typeahead fails after rsh 
~Date: Fri, 23 Jun 1995 11:17:15 PDT

In message <199506230440.VAA20194@freefall.cdrom.com> you write:
>Typing commands before receiving a return prompt from the shell after
>a rsh command fails.  The subsequent commands are lost.

By default, rsh thinks the remote command wants input, so it sucks up stdin.  
Try rsh -n if the remote command doesn't require any input.

% rsh -n localhost sleep 5
echo hi jeffrey
% hi jeffrey

  Bill