Re: ast-ksh on NetBSD 6.0

[christos%astron.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)]

In article <x6vcdib9w6.fsf%dynalabs.de@localhost>,
Michael Piotrowski  <mxp%dynalabs.de@localhost> wrote:
>Hi,
>
>when built on NetBSD 6.0 (I've tried i386 and amd64), ast-ksh behaves
>strangely: all commands are executed in the background, i.e., as if
>entered with "&".  For example, after issuing "ls", you only get the
>prompt back after pressing return again, and then it says
>
>  [1] + Done ls
>
>If noticed this behavior with the ast-ksh built from the original
>sources and with the pkgsrc binaries.
>
>When using binaries built on an earlier version of NetBSD (pkgsrc has on
>for 5.1.2, for example), this issue doesn't occur.
>
>Any ideas?

In 6.0 it finds posix_spawn() and uses it. Something is messed up with
the process group handling, but I am not sure what yet.

christos