Agrumpy.314
NET.v7bugs
utzoo!duke!unc!grumpy!smb
Sun Aug 24 21:18:23 1980
learn bugs
There are a few bugs in the distributed learn:
a) When a sub-shell is invoked by makpipe.c, its output on file 2
is going direct to the terminal rather than through a pipe; this
can cause prompts to be intermixed with other output. Fix: in
makpipe.c, in the fork that will actually invoke the shell, close
file 2 and dup(1).
b) In the distributed PDP 11 version (though not in UCB VAX UNIX),
routine start.c uses its own structure to describe a directory;
this structure in turn gives the type of an i-node as "int", which
causes portability problems on 32-bit machines.
c) In tee.c, a single character is read into the &i, which is an "int";
this value is then used as the argument to putc. While this code
works properly on PDP-11s and VAXes, it fails on any machine
where the bytes aren't backwards.
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