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Subject: Re: You will need to recompile your libc and apps!!!
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> At 11:59 AM 4/21/97 -0700, Terry Lambert wrote:
> I Did a make world Sunday with current sources and X doesn't work any more
> if i use a libc from last thurs (4/17/96) it works.kernel is also current
> although and old kernel doesn't make a difference.all seemed to work well
> till Sunday when i did make world from X and shut down.All i get is a
> X screen with nothing else.
> 	Any ideas
> 

Apply this patch from Tor Egge (might not help your case.)  If that
doesn't work, then try removing the RFMEM from /sys/kern/kern_fork.c.
If that works, there is some code somewhere that is using vfork, but
shouldn't.  It would really be ashamed if we cannot use the RFMEM.


Index: popen.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/lib/libc/gen/popen.c,v
retrieving revision 1.8
diff -u -r1.8 popen.c
--- popen.c	1997/04/20 20:17:04	1.8
+++ popen.c	1997/04/21 14:10:59
@@ -105,7 +105,8 @@
 			if (pdes[1] != STDOUT_FILENO) {
 				(void)dup2(pdes[1], STDOUT_FILENO);
 				(void)close(pdes[1]);
-				(void)dup2(STDOUT_FILENO, STDIN_FILENO);
+				if (twoway)
+					(void)dup2(STDOUT_FILENO, STDIN_FILENO);
 			} else if (twoway && (pdes[1] != STDIN_FILENO))
 				(void)dup2(pdes[1], STDIN_FILENO);
 		} else {