drw900@anusf.anu.edu.au ("Drew R Whitehouse") (05/06/91)
For any one using tcl on SG's machine - vfork isn't supported
properly. This breaks the exec command. The fix is simple, in
Tcl_ExecCmd() (tclCmdAH.c) replace the call to vfork woth fork. I use
-
/*
* Fork off the child process.
*/
#ifdef sgi
pid = fork();
#else
pid = vfork();
#endif
Drew
P.S. If you haven't tried TCL check it out ! (tk.tar.Z at sprite.berkeley.edu)
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