From: jwiegand@moe.eng.temple.edu () Subject: Re: BUG with bash and Linux-0.97 pl 2 Date: Sun, 30 Aug 1992 03:10:26 GMT
In article <1992Aug29.054016.28156@athena.mit.edu> tytso@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Theodore Ts'o) writes:
>I just recently upgraded to Linux 0.97 patchlevel 2, and after I did, I
>found that xinit wasn't working anymore. I finally traced it down to my
>.xinitrc file, and to the following specific bug.
>
>If you type the following at bash under 0.97 PL2:
>
>unset SHLVL
>exec /bin/sh
>
>The existing shell will core dump without managing to exec the prgram
>you ask it to exec.
>If you take the same bash binary and run under 0.97 PL 1, the shell will
>*not* core dump and exec the request program instead. (This is the
>correct behavior).
>This behavior can be duplicated using either the MCC 0.96c /bin/bash, or
>the /bin/bash on the 0.97 rootimage disk.
[stuff deleted]
> - Ted
Hey! It doesn't do this for me! I have recently rebuilt bash (out of the
box) to deal with the extfs. Maybe your shell is out of date.
jim