[comp.bugs.4bsd] vi doesn't wait for children

wendt@megaron.UUCP (12/04/86)

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

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