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- From: gleasokr@rintintin.Colorado.EDU (Kris Gleason)
- Subject: tcsh 6.03 -- to patch or not to patch?
- Message-ID: <gleasokr.728183805@rintintin.Colorado.EDU>
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- Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 01:16:45 GMT
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- I got the latest-and-greatest tcsh binaries, linked with libc.so.4.2
- from sunsite.unc.edu. As you might have guessed, it was a big problem when I
- installed it... had problems with pipes (rusty pipes). Basically, at
- seemingly random times, commands executed through a pipe would either
- stop running early (only fixed by ^C), or kill the shell (the shell caught
- user signal 2 and exited).
-
- So, I got the source, applied the included diffs, recompiled with all new
- stuff, and got identical results. I looked at the diff file, and could make
- very little sense out of what was happening with SIGUSR2, if anything.
-
- Finally, I recompiled again, this time without the diff. The compile went
- smoothly, and the new binary has had no problems with any pipes. In fact,
- it has no problems that I have noticed at all.
-
- So, if you're still with me... I was just wondering why the original source
- was changed in the first place. Was this necessary for an earlier kernel/gcc
- configuration? (currently at 0.99.1, gcc2.3.3.. about to compile 0.99.4)
- Is there some other problem that I have not noticed in everyday use?
-
- Thanks.
-
- Kris
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