Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!david From: david@utzoo.UUCP (David Trueman) Newsgroups: hacknews Subject: bug in shell's built-in echo fixed Message-ID: <3660@utzoo.UUCP> Date: Mon, 19-Mar-84 15:52:20 EST Article-I.D.: utzoo.3660 Posted: Mon Mar 19 15:52:20 1984 Date-Received: Mon, 19-Mar-84 15:52:20 EST Organization: U of Toronto Zoology Lines: 12 The built-in echo in the shell was ignoring all signals. This behaviour was not terribly troublesome under normal conditions, but something like: echo /zoo/* at 300 or 1200 baud wouldn't interrupt and would take some time to finish. Incidentally, in fixing this bug, I noticed that the exit code reported by the shell upon catching a signal has changed: in the V7 shell it was 3 and now it is 2000. I can't imagine this causing any problems. -- David Trueman @ U of Toronto Zoology {allegra,ihnp4,linus,decvax}!utzoo!david