[2710] in Release_Engineering
Re: one more change, sorry...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (vanharen@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Tue Jul 16 10:56:36 1991
From: vanharen@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
To: rel-eng@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: [2707] in rel-eng.
Date: Tue, 16 Jul 91 10:56:38 EDT
> The fork actually should stay... it avoids any possibility of hangs or other
> errors that may be caused by the program.
But isn't there a problem with backgrounding a program that forks
itself? I seem to remember something about this in the past...
Anyway, I submitted this change without thinking it through. It just
struck me now that what I sent in is all wrong. I need to re-do a
substantial part of /usr/athena/lib/init/xsession. If it is not already
too late to do this, I'll send it in ASAP.
Sorry for the confusion. Wouldn't want to let my reputation on this
release slip, though, would I? :-)
Also, there is a fairly big bug in the kerberos-ticket-checking
function. The problem is in the warning-box stuff. There is a bug in
there that can cause dash to crash on the decmips (and the sun, which is
where I noticed it first... :-). It does not occur on the VAX or the
RT, however. Dunno if the bug exists on the RIOS or Mac. I should have
a patch for you shortly.
-C.
