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- From: hlu@eecs.wsu.edu (H.J. Lu)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: Found the problems with tcsh; How to fix?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.235108.4714@serval.net.wsu.edu>
- Date: 18 Nov 92 23:51:08 GMT
- Article-I.D.: serval.1992Nov18.235108.4714
- References: <1992Nov18.164029.26529@galileo.cc.rochester.edu>
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- In article <1992Nov18.164029.26529@galileo.cc.rochester.edu>, ctne_ltd@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Chris Newbold) writes:
- |> I've found the reason why tcsh 6.02 won't run under pl5: it makes
- |> several calls to sigaction () with the second parameter set to NULL.
- |> In his announcement, Linus said that this would cause problems
- |> because of a bug in the library function sigaction ().
- |>
- |> What is the best way to go about getting tcsh back up? Should I
- |> get the source for the library and fix sigaction (), or is there
- |> some temporary change I can make to get this working?
- |>
- |> Comments, Linus? Hlu? Anybody?
- |>
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- I feel sorry for that. The good news is it has been fixed in libc 4.2. It
- is still under testing due to new iostream and changes in kernel. If you
- want to try it, please send me a note. Beside libc 4.2, you have to use
- the alpha gcc 2.3.2.
-
- H.J.
-