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Re: behaviour with rsh



Zoltan Hidvegi (hzoli@xxxxxxxxxx) wrote on 10 October 1995 21:02:

 >I think this is not zsh specific.  My login shell is tcsh on the
 >Solaris box, and it has similar problems.  Rsh has many problems
 >which casuses processes to hang.  Just read an rsh manpage about a
 >few problems.
 >
 >I assume that the sun rshd waits for the cild and something else I
 >do not know while the linux rshd exits immediately if the child
 >closed all of the communication lines.  Both is a reasonable
 >behaviour, but if depends on the rshd and zsh has nothing to do
 >here.  Usually to start an rsh in the background, you should do
 >something like

It certainly has to do with zsh. I was using an old version in a sun
4.1.2, and the command worked, even with hzoli-3 in linux. After I
upgraded the sun version to hzoli-3 it stopped working. It may not be
a fault of zsh, but it sure depends on it.

Carlos



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