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? -- \\ 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
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