[comp.windows.x] ksh versus x11

benson@ksr.UUCP (Benson Margulies) (05/26/88)

We are running X11R2 on Suns. Recently, a couple of us just decided
to take the plunge into the korn shell. 

I remember some postings about why we can't start x up with
SHELL of ksh. It tends to print a message about switching to the
new tty driver and it tends to hang. Did this indeed get discussed?
Does anyone recall the answer?

--benson

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Benson I. Margulies                         Kendall Square Research Corp.
harvard!ksr!benson			    ksr!benson@harvard.harvard.edu

RWS@ZERMATT.LCS.MIT.EDU (Robert Scheifler) (05/26/88)

See fix #22, recently made available.

benson@ksr.UUCP (Benson I. Margulies Kendall Square Research Corp.) (05/27/88)

thanks. I got past the problem by reordering some code in ksh
to look more like csh. I am curious to see the fix, which I will
grab soon.

--benson

avr@mtgzz.UUCP (XMRP50000[jcm]-a.v.reed) (06/01/88)

In article <350@ksr.UUCP>, benson@ksr.UUCP (Benson Margulies) writes:
< We are running X11R2 on Suns. Recently, a couple of us just decided
< to take the plunge into the korn shell. 
< I remember some postings about why we can't start x up with
< SHELL of ksh. It tends to print a message about switching to the
< new tty driver and it tends to hang. Did this indeed get discussed?
< Does anyone recall the answer?

The problem is in xinit, which does some incredibly stupid
csh-specific stuff. I initialize X with a ksh script, and it runs
just fine with ksh on my SUN 3/60.
				    Adam Reed (mtgzz!avr)