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Date:      Wed, 02 Sep 1998 09:21:18 +0000
From:      Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
To:        aw1@stade.co.uk
Cc:        Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Pipeline behaviour - changed? 
Message-ID:  <199809020921.JAA03669@word.smith.net.au>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 02 Sep 1998 12:22:45 %2B0100." <19980902122245.A707@stade.co.uk> 

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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.

Bizarre; it works fine in an xterm under twm, fvwm and fvwm95 (some old 
vesion).  Can you try a different window manager at your end?

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