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Date:      Wed, 3 Dec 2008 16:33:23 -0800 (PST)
From:      Nate Eldredge <neldredge@math.ucsd.edu>
To:        Nate Eldredge <neldredge@math.ucsd.edu>
Cc:        Steve Watt <steve@watt.com>, hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: tcsh loses the foreground process group?
Message-ID:  <Pine.GSO.4.64.0812031632060.1597@zeno.ucsd.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.64.0812031541330.1597@zeno.ucsd.edu>
References:  <200812022328.mB2NSQa6049527@wattres.watt.com> <Pine.GSO.4.64.0812031541330.1597@zeno.ucsd.edu>

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On Wed, 3 Dec 2008, Nate Eldredge wrote:

> Thanks for the report.  It looks like this is yet another manifestation of a 
> problem in tcsh, where it does inappropriate things in a vfork'ed subshell. 
> In my tests, running tcsh with -F (which causes it to use fork instead of 
> vfork) causes the problem to go away.  It is also present in 7.0-RELEASE and 
> probably all later versions.
>
> There are several open bugs related to this problem, but so far they do not 
> seem to have attracted the interest of any committers.  Among them are:
>
> bin/41297
> bin/52746
> bin/125185
> amd64/128259
> bin/129378 (which you just opened)

I have opened bin/129405 as an omnibus PR for these problems.

-- 

Nate Eldredge
neldredge@math.ucsd.edu



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