From: zmbenhal@isis.cs.du.edu (Zeyd M. Ben-Halim) Subject: bugs in linux; any clues? Date: Mon, 4 May 1992 05:53:29 GMT
There are several bugs in linux. I'm running 0.95c+ and gcc2.1.
Two not serious but annoying bugs:
pressing ENTER at the prompt of more results in the prompt line being scrolled
together with the rest of the screen.
characters typed before the prompt appears get echoed again after the prompt.
this only happens with bash and ash but not with rc.
There is a bug in the gcc2.1 library preventing archivers, lha-1.00 and zip-1.0
working properly. lha keeps gobbling memory until it runs out of swap memory;
this with more than 2MB of memory. zip simply sits there with no visible
action (it could be allocating memory, but it never crashed)
finally gawk keeps crashing with general protection error on scripts (namely,
one with rc and in makewhatis from man-1.0)
If anybody has any clues or fixes please feel free to impart them.
Thanks,
Zeyd