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Article #444vi doesn't wait for children
From: wendt
Date: Wed, 03 Dec 1986 22:20
Date: Wed, 03 Dec 1986 22:20
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Vi doesn't wait for spawned children, on things like 50,75!cat >> foo I had something like this mapped to a keystroke and was using it to partition my mailbox. After thirty or so spawns, it says "no more processes" and goes into a mode where it simply echoes every character you type at it. All the defunct processes stay around till you exit. Alan Wendt U of Arizona Computer Science Acrostic is a poem form Containing a device Rhyming's not essential, no it Only makes it nice Sometimes it is difficult To write acrostic muse It took a lot of patience Composing this for youse Mason Williams
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!seismo!nbires!hao!noao!arizona!megaron!wendt From: wendt@megaron.UUCP Newsgroups: comp.bugs.4bsd Subject: vi doesn't wait for children Message-ID: <1333@megaron.UUCP> Date: Wed, 3-Dec-86 17:20:49 EST Article-I.D.: megaron.1333 Posted: Wed Dec 3 17:20:49 1986 Date-Received: Fri, 5-Dec-86 05:14:53 EST Distribution: net Organization: Dept of CS, U of Arizona, Tucson Lines: 21