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From: John Capo <jc@irbs.com>
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Subject: Re: Shell bug
To: bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans)
Date: Thu, 21 Sep 1995 08:28:41 -0400 (EDT)
Cc: j@uriah.heep.sax.de, jc@irbs.com, freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org
In-Reply-To: <199509210738.RAA01315@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from "Bruce Evans" at Sep 21, 95 05:38:23 pm
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Bruce Evans writes:
> 
> >This is not to neglect the bug, but:
> 
> >$ while { sleep 1 & wait ; } ; do
> >> echo fine
> >> done
> >fine
> >...
> 
> Perhaps it is sensitive to the malloc version.  I use shared libraries
> for everything except ld.so, so /bin/sh automatically uses phkmalloc.
> I will try the 4.4lite2 sh (linked shared of course) in a few minutes.
> 

The "exec 0<foo" line aggravates it.

I am still using the old malloc.

John Capo
IRBS Engineering