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From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer)
Newsgroups: hacknews
Subject: mail(1) bug fixed
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Date: Tue, 21-Aug-84 17:49:33 EDT
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Posted: Tue Aug 21 17:49:33 1984
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Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
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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.
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				Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
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