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Article #362fun & games: arconn .login recursion
From: Dermot G. Harriss
Date: Mon, 25 Sep 1989 00:03
Date: Mon, 25 Sep 1989 00:03
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.login was execing xinit -ls which forked xterm which sourced .login which exec'd xinit -ls which forked xterm which sourced .login which exec'd xterm -ls which forked xterm which sourced ... this had a negative effect on performance, caused unusual graphical effects, and generally made the station difficult to use productively. Termination condition was checked but never set. Fixed (I think) but not tested 'cause games is locked in arconn's office.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!watmath!dgharriss From: dgharriss@watmath.waterloo.edu (Dermot G. Harriss) Newsgroups: uw.mfcf.software Subject: fun & games: arconn .login recursion Message-ID: <29361@watmath.waterloo.edu> Date: 25 Sep 89 00:03:02 GMT Reply-To: dgharriss@watmath.waterloo.edu (Dermot G. Harriss) Distribution: uw Organization: Math Faculty Computing Facility, University of Waterloo Lines: 7