Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!pacbell!att!mtunx!gladys!bakerst!cgh!manta!brant From: brant@manta.UUCP (Brant Cheikes) Newsgroups: unix-pc.general Subject: another curious bug Message-ID: <378@manta.UUCP> Date: 26 Jun 88 19:33:52 GMT Reply-To: brant@manta.UUCP (Brant Cheikes) Distribution: unix-pc Organization: Soul of the Gnu Machine, Philadelphia Lines: 16 I've encountered this odd bug that I have so far been unable to find an explanation for. It's pretty innocuous, doesn't happen very often, and is cured by a reboot. The problem: the first shell spawned from the user agent (e.g., using "Full-screen UNIX" in 3.51) is attached to /dev/syscon instead of a /dev/wn. Subsequent shells get the usual window device. You can detect this problem by running either tty or ps. This hasn't caused me any problems so far, I've checked utmp and wtmp and the /dev/w* entries, everthing looks normal. Still, *something* must be wrong somewhere. Is there some way to cure this without rebooting? And is there anything wrong with just using /dev/syscon? The UNIXpc kernel continues to work [sic] in strange and wondrous ways. -- Brant Cheikes University of Pennsylvania Department of Computer and Information Science ARPA: brant@linc.cis.upenn.edu, UUCP: ...drexel!manta!brant