Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!henry From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer) Newsgroups: hacknews Subject: mail(1) bug fixed Message-ID: <4254@utzoo.UUCP> Date: Tue, 21-Aug-84 17:49:33 EDT Article-I.D.: utzoo.4254 Posted: Tue Aug 21 17:49:33 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 21-Aug-84 17:49:33 EDT Organization: U of Toronto Zoology Lines: 9 Hastily fixed a long-known bug in mail: the code which waited for a subprocess to complete was buggy and could malfunction if the process had unexpected children. Unexpected children can occur as a result of the way the shell does pipelines. I'd known about this problem for quite a while, and had it on the low-priority-fixes list, but the new shell provoked the problem on a grand scale. -- Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology {allegra,ihnp4,linus,decvax}!utzoo!henry