Re: xterm crashes?
Re: xterm crashes?
- Subject: Re: xterm crashes?
- From: David Brown <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2003 12:31:49 -0800
On Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at 07:49:31AM +1200, David Orlovich wrote:
> I've found that the only time my xterm crashes was when I tried to
> execute a file that wasn't available to me (either in my path in that
> xterm or just not installed). This happened with previous X-11 betas
This is a known bug/feature in tcsh.
% foo &
[1] 939
foo: Command not found.
exit
Backgrounded commands that aren't found cause the shell to exit.
Perhaps this is the cause of the problems that others are experiencing
with exiting terminals. If your startup scripts are executing with csh,
a bad command with & at the end would crash the shell, and the xterm
would exit.
The other shells do not have this problem (zsh, bash). This happens
with all versions of tcsh I've seen.
Dave
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