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Subject: Re: tcsh loses the foreground process group?
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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.

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Nate Eldredge
neldredge@math.ucsd.edu