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- From: jwiegand@moe.eng.temple.edu ()
- Subject: Re: BUG with bash and Linux-0.97 pl 2
- Organization: Temple University EE Dept.
- Summary: I don't see this.
- References: <1992Aug29.054016.28156@athena.mit.edu>
- Message-ID: <1992Aug30.031026.21007@ctr.columbia.edu>
- Sender: news@ctr.columbia.edu (The Daily Lose)
- Date: Sun, 30 Aug 1992 03:10:26 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug29.054016.28156@athena.mit.edu> tytso@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Theodore Ts'o) writes:
- >I just recently upgraded to Linux 0.97 patchlevel 2, and after I did, I
- >found that xinit wasn't working anymore. I finally traced it down to my
- >.xinitrc file, and to the following specific bug.
- >
- >If you type the following at bash under 0.97 PL2:
- >
- >unset SHLVL
- >exec /bin/sh
- >
- >The existing shell will core dump without managing to exec the prgram
- >you ask it to exec.
- >If you take the same bash binary and run under 0.97 PL 1, the shell will
- >*not* core dump and exec the request program instead. (This is the
- >correct behavior).
- >This behavior can be duplicated using either the MCC 0.96c /bin/bash, or
- >the /bin/bash on the 0.97 rootimage disk.
- [stuff deleted]
- > - Ted
-
- Hey! It doesn't do this for me! I have recently rebuilt bash (out of the
- box) to deal with the extfs. Maybe your shell is out of date.
- jim
-