From owner-freebsd-current Wed Sep 2 09:24:58 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA17746 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Wed, 2 Sep 1998 09:24:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from word.smith.net.au (castles248.castles.com [208.214.165.248]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA17722 for ; Wed, 2 Sep 1998 09:24:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@word.smith.net.au) Received: from word.smith.net.au (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by word.smith.net.au (8.9.1/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA03669; Wed, 2 Sep 1998 09:21:19 GMT (envelope-from mike@word.smith.net.au) Message-Id: <199809020921.JAA03669@word.smith.net.au> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: aw1@stade.co.uk cc: Mike Smith , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Pipeline behaviour - changed? In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 02 Sep 1998 12:22:45 +0100." <19980902122245.A707@stade.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 02 Sep 1998 09:21:18 +0000 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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? -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message