[8772] in Athena Bugs
Re: rsaix 7.3S: tcsh
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Marc Horowitz)
Sat Dec 21 09:00:25 1991
To: "Richard Basch" <basch@MIT.EDU>
Cc: bugs@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: [8771] in Athena Bugs
Reply-To: Marc Horowitz <marc@MIT.EDU>
Date: Sat, 21 Dec 91 08:59:58 EST
From: Marc Horowitz <marc@Athena.MIT.EDU>
>> 1. John Carr logged in a few times and found that in his first window
>> the shell was looping. One time, we forced a core dump and found that
>> it was in readdir() from hash(). This only affected John's "login
>> window" and none of the other windows. After a while, his login
>> started working (no changes).
I've never seen, nor heard of this one.
>> 2. One time, when I was typing commands, my history event numbers were
>> not going up; I was stuck at 593. So, commands like !! were
>> returning the last recorded event, rather than my previous command.
>> I think this started happening after ctrl-c'ing out of a foreach
>> loop, but I can't reproduce it.
In earlier versions of tcsh, this was a bug. C-c'ing out of a foreach
or a multi-line macro would screw up history. It's been fixed. Since
I believe you're using patch 8 now, this explains why you can't
reproduce it.
Marc
