From owner-freebsd-bugs Wed Sep 20 23:54:49 1995 Return-Path: owner-bugs Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id XAA27524 for bugs-outgoing; Wed, 20 Sep 1995 23:54:49 -0700 Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id XAA27499 for ; Wed, 20 Sep 1995 23:54:42 -0700 Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id IAA03729; Thu, 21 Sep 1995 08:53:38 +0200 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id IAA27869; Thu, 21 Sep 1995 08:53:37 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.9) id HAA14447; Thu, 21 Sep 1995 07:54:55 +0200 From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199509210554.HAA14447@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: Shell bug To: jc@irbs.com (John Capo) Date: Thu, 21 Sep 1995 07:54:54 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199509202157.RAA08702@irbs.irbs.com> from "John Capo" at Sep 20, 95 05:57:38 pm 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: 895 Sender: owner-bugs@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk As John Capo wrote: > > This will `Memory fault' on the fifth iteration: > > while { sleep 1 & wait ; } ; do > ... > > It appears that { anything & wait ; } is a problem. This is not to neglect the bug, but: $ while { sleep 1 & wait ; } ; do > echo fine > done fine fine fine fine fine fine fine fine fine fine fine ^C [1] 14429 Exit 0 sleep 1 [2] 14430 Exit 0 sleep 1 [3] 14431 Exit 0 sleep 1 [4] 14432 Exit 0 sleep 1 [5] 14433 Exit 0 sleep 1 [6] 14434 Exit 0 sleep 1 [7] 14435 Exit 0 sleep 1 [8] 14436 Exit 0 sleep 1 [9] 14437 Exit 0 sleep 1 [10] 14438 Exit 0 sleep 1 [11] 14439 Exit 0 sleep 1 -- 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. ;-)