Re: Sco Ux. rel 4

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From: Chet Ramey
Date: Wed, 05 Aug 1992 03:17

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> here I submit a serious bug:
> 
> 	* Bash version No. 1.12
> 	* Machine i486 with SCO Unix system V Rel.4
> 	* After compiling with no errors, I invoked it, it seemed to work as it 	came up with "bash#" but the first command hangs it completely.
> 	* It is a serious bug as you have only to compile it & the very first co	mmand hangs it.
> 

SCO v4 fixes the show-stopper completely-broken sigsuspend() bug present in
earlier SCO versions.  Unfortunately, the fix breaks the workaround
bash-1.12 has in place to deal with those broken systems. 

A quick fix for SCO folks is to use the code in wait_for inside the
#if !defined (SCO) (that is, change the `! defined (SCO)' to `1').
Then change the line in flush_child that reads
#if defined (SCO) to #if 0.

`SCO' still needs to be defined so code is present to work around SCO's
`cannot do job control on /dev/tty' bug.

Bash 1.13 already has a proper fix for this in place.

Chet

--
``The use of history as therapy means the corruption of history as history.''
	-- Arthur Schlesinger

Chet Ramey, Case Western Reserve University	Internet: chet@po.CWRU.Edu

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