Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 28 May 1999 00:54:57 +0000 | From | Bruce Korb <> | Subject | Why is 2.0.36 so broken? (RH 5.2) |
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"run" is a little program I wrote to echo its arguments and exec the program specified. That way, I could be certain what strings were delivered to the execvp() syscall. Here is the code, the invocation and the result:
#include <stdio.h> #include <unistd.h> int main( int argc, char** argv ) { printf( "Run\t%s (%d args)\n", *++argv, --argc - 1 ); { int i = 0; char** pp = argv+1; while (++i < argc) printf( "\targ %d\t%s\n", i, *(pp++) ); } return execvp( *argv, argv ); }
> run vi test Run vi (1 args) arg 1 test "^IÎë^X~M¶" [New File]:q :q
Were I to have written out the file (which I have done on occasion), the result would be a file named, "^IÎë^X~M¶". Not good. Whatever the cause of this problem, I think it is the primary reason for another problem: after several invocations, Netscape suddenly complains that I have no default Inbox, and so I cannot receive my mail. But it takes several invocations. The result is a netscape process that is not talking to my xwindow, so I have to ps e|egrep netscape and kill -9 the process :(.
I just tried something:
> run run vi xxx Run run (2 args) arg 1 vi arg 2 xxx Run vi (1 args) arg 1 xxx "^IÎë^X~M¶" [New File]:q
Interesting. By the way, this manifestation of the problem goes away if I set my login shell to bash, instead of ksh. The Netscape problem remains, however.
This is a highly, highly reproducible problem. _any_ suggestions at all? Please?
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