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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!pacbell.com!iggy.GW.Vitalink.COM!wetware!spunky.RedBrick.COM!psinntp!psinntp!uuneo!sugar!peter From: peter@NeoSoft.com (Peter da Silva) Subject: Re: [NetBSD] Stupid problem with ELM Organization: NeoSoft Communications Services -- (713) 684-5900 Date: Wed, 2 Jun 1993 22:55:58 GMT Message-ID: <C80npB.LF4@sugar.NeoSoft.COM> References: <738477181wkn6333@edmund> <3529@bigfoot.first.gmd.de> <1993May28.080204.93@gnusys.GUN.de> Lines: 12 The problem with elm is that it depends on the shell doing something it's not documented to do. It just happens to work because of the order the bourne and bourne again shells manipulate file descriptors. The funny thing is, that in almost all these cases the Right Thing To Do is simply not run the delivery program in the background... for reasons completely unrelated to the differences between sh/bash and ash. -- Peter da Silva. <peter@sugar.neosoft.com>. `-_-' Har du kramat din varg idag? 'U` "Det er min ledsager, det er ikke drikkepenge."