Re: Obscure Vi bug?

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From: David S. Herron
Date: Sun, 22 Jul 1990 22:53

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Well, gee, as long as we're gonna pour out some vi bugs..

On (at least) SysVr3.1 and r3.2 on the 3b2 line if you use
the '!' command to filter some text, then a zombie is left around.
You do that enough times and you fill up the process table with
zombies and somebody comes to your cubicle and asks what's going
wrong with the system.  At least that's what happened to me the
time I was playing with some tables of information for which
I had an awk(1) script which recalculated the tables...

Short-Version: The filter command in vi leaves a zombie hanging.

Fix: Do a wait(2), silly!
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From: david@twg.com (David S. Herron)
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Subject: Re: Obscure Vi bug?
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Date: 22 Jul 90 22:53:06 GMT
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