tcsh bug in sunos 4

Jason Heirtzler jdh at bu-pub.bu.edu
Wed Mar 7 11:17:48 AEST 1990


There's a particularly annoying tcsh bug (race condition?) that
appeared in SunOS 4, where pipelined jobs randomly hang

        % strings undump | more
        strings undump | more

        Stopped (tty output)
        [4] 24416 24417

It has been suggested that compiling with -Dvfork=fork makes the
problem less common, but doesn't fix the real problem.

As since this code is doubtlessly really nasty, I don't relish the
task facing me.  So, Has anyone already fixed it?


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