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From: pjb@tcom.stc.co.uk (Peter J. Bishop)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: csh pgrp problem
Summary: Also on /usr/new/csh
Message-ID: <910@jura.tcom.stc.co.uk>
Date: 10 Aug 89 07:14:39 GMT
References: <712@skye.ed.ac.uk>
Organization: STC Telecomms, Access Systems Engineering, Harlow. ESSEX
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In article <712@skye.ed.ac.uk>, richard@aiai.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin) writes:
) Running under SunOS 4, we occasionally encounter an annoying problem:
) a pipeline (eg cat /etc/passwd | more) will stop, with the message
) 
)    Stopped (tty output)
) 
) I had some problems when I first compiled this shell for SunOS 4, and
) the simplest solution seemed to be to #undef VFORK, since fork() in
) SunOs 4 does copy-on-write.

I am also encountering this problem using /usr/new/csh on a DEC microvax
running Ultrix 3.0

As I have no way of re-compiling this shell, does anyone know of a fix that I
could implement, or should I raise the problem with DES s/w support.

Thanks,

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