Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1998 12:22:45 +0100 From: Adrian Wontroba <aw1@stade.co.uk> To: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Pipeline behaviour - changed? Message-ID: <19980902122245.A707@stade.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <199808312259.WAA01092@word.smith.net.au>; from Mike Smith on Mon, Aug 31, 1998 at 10:58:58PM %2B0000 References: <19980901034551.A27539@stade.co.uk> <199808312259.WAA01092@word.smith.net.au>
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I wrote: > > This sort of construct: > > > > #!/bin/sh > > yes | head -2 > > > > No longer exits when the head finishes. Anybody else seeing this sort > > of thing with a current 3.0-CURRENT? If so, we might be in for a lot of > > complaints when people start installing netscape. I've deleted /usr/src/* and the cruft from /usr/lib, run cvs and buildworld / installworld, and rebooted. 'yes | head -2' behaves as it should when run from the console, with csh, sh, bash and ksh. It probably always has. It misbehaves when run in an xterm under kde. It works when run under kvt under kde. Other than saying "it seems to be an xterm problem" I'm baffled. -- Adrian Wontroba, Stade Computers Limited. phone: (+44) 121 681 6677 Mail info@accu.org for information about the Association of C and C++ Users or see <http://www.accu.org/>; To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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