Date: Mon, 18 Sep 1995 13:57:45 -0400 (EDT) From: Chuck Robey <chuckr@eng.umd.edu> To: Olof Samuelsson TM/SA 83063 6546 <xkkolsa@aom.ericsson.se> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: tcsh-6.05 and fvwm Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.91.950918135713.11553A@mocha.eng.umd.edu> In-Reply-To: <9509181519.AA16269@sim15>
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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! ----------------------------+-----------------------------------------------
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