From owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 4 00:10:03 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@hub.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B1A34106564A for ; Thu, 4 Dec 2008 00:10:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gnats@FreeBSD.org) Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::28]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7A6CC8FC18 for ; Thu, 4 Dec 2008 00:10:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gnats@FreeBSD.org) Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (gnats@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id mB40A39e083695 for ; Thu, 4 Dec 2008 00:10:03 GMT (envelope-from gnats@freefall.freebsd.org) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.14.3/8.14.3/Submit) id mB40A3Jw083694; Thu, 4 Dec 2008 00:10:03 GMT (envelope-from gnats) Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2008 00:10:03 GMT Message-Id: <200812040010.mB40A3Jw083694@freefall.freebsd.org> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org From: Nate Eldredge Cc: Subject: Re: bin/129378: [t]csh loses foreground process group X-BeenThere: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: Nate Eldredge List-Id: Bug reports List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 04 Dec 2008 00:10:03 -0000 The following reply was made to PR bin/129378; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Nate Eldredge To: bug-followup@FreeBSD.org, steve@watt.com Cc: Subject: Re: bin/129378: [t]csh loses foreground process group Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2008 16:01:14 -0800 (PST) The problem goes away when tcsh is run with -F, and thus this bug is probably related to bin/125185 et al. tcsh under some conditions will modify global state after vfork(), breaking things when the parent runs again. -F causes it to use fork() instead of vfork() and then all is well. IMHO -F should be made the default. -- Nate Eldredge neldredge@math.ucsd.edu