From hsu Thu Jun 22 21:35:59 1995 Received: (from hsu@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id VAA19893 ; Thu, 22 Jun 1995 21:35:59 -0700 Message-Id: <199506230435.VAA19893@freefall.cdrom.com> Date: Thu, 22 Jun 1995 21:35:59 -0700 From: Jeffrey Hsu Reply-To: hsu To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Subject: typeahead fails after rsh X-Send-Pr-Version: 3.2 >Number: 542 >Category: bin >Synopsis: typeahead fails after rsh >Confidential: no >Severity: serious >Priority: medium >Responsible: freebsd-bugs (FreeBSD bugs mailing list) >State: closed >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: sw-bug >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Thu Jun 22 21:40:01 1995 >Closed-Date: Fri Jun 23 20:40:27 MET DST 1995 >Last-Modified: >Originator: Jeffrey & >Release: FreeBSD 2.1.0-Development i386 >Organization: >Environment: FreeBSD-2.0.5R >Description: Typing commands before receiving a return prompt from the shell after a rsh command fails. The subsequent commands are lost. >How-To-Repeat: % rsh localhost sleep 5 % echo ^G >Fix: >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: State-Changed-From-To: open->closed State-Changed-By: joerg State-Changed-When: Fri Jun 23 20:40:27 MET DST 1995 State-Changed-Why: The described behaviour is intentional: ~To: Jeffrey Hsu ~cc: freebsd-bugs@freefall.cdrom.com ~Subject: Re: bin/542: typeahead fails after rsh ~Date: Fri, 23 Jun 1995 11:17:15 PDT In message <199506230440.VAA20194@freefall.cdrom.com> you write: >Unformatted: >Typing commands before receiving a return prompt from the shell after >a rsh command fails. The subsequent commands are lost. By default, rsh thinks the remote command wants input, so it sucks up stdin. Try rsh -n if the remote command doesn't require any input. % rsh -n localhost sleep 5 echo hi jeffrey % hi jeffrey Bill