From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Sep 18 10:58:16 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id KAA24709 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 18 Sep 1995 10:58:16 -0700 Received: from bacchus.eng.umd.edu (bacchus.eng.umd.edu [129.2.94.5]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id KAA24704 for ; Mon, 18 Sep 1995 10:58:12 -0700 Received: from mocha.eng.umd.edu (mocha.eng.umd.edu [129.2.98.16]) by bacchus.eng.umd.edu (8.7.Gamma.0/8.7.Gamma.0) with ESMTP id NAA02863; Mon, 18 Sep 1995 13:57:46 -0400 (EDT) Received: (chuckr@localhost) by mocha.eng.umd.edu (8.7/8.6.4) id NAA11942; Mon, 18 Sep 1995 13:57:46 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 18 Sep 1995 13:57:45 -0400 (EDT) From: Chuck Robey To: Olof Samuelsson TM/SA 83063 6546 cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: tcsh-6.05 and fvwm In-Reply-To: <9509181519.AA16269@sim15> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 18 Sep 1995, Olof Samuelsson TM/SA 83063 6546 wrote: > I'm having trouble with tcsh (the precompiled package) and fvwm, > (both the precompiled package for 1.24r and fvwm2.0pl25). > > Fvwm seems to be unable to communicate with it's modules (it does that > via pipes, and passes the fds as args to the module). Whenever tcsh > is used at a level "above" fvwm (as login shell, in an xterm that is a > parent or grandparent of fvwm) fvwm can't communicate with it's > modules. > > Fvwm works fine when invoked via xdm/.xsession (that is, only /bin/sh > involved). > > When I do a loop and checks for open descriptors that are terminals > (via filetest -t NN), there are a few extra fds open in the 10-20 > range. > > I have a faint memeory of some old csh/tcsh bug that messes up file > descriptors, is that true, or is it a FreeBSD 2.0.5 problem? > > (fvwm works fine with bash, pdksh and zsh) > > Should this go to -ports, btw? I'd like to check this too. Can you give a specific failure example? ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@eng.umd.edu | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 9120 Edmonston Ct #302 | Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run Journey2 and n3lxx, both FreeBSD (301) 220-2114 | version 2.2 current -- and great FUN! ----------------------------+-----------------------------------------------