FreeBSD Port: ksh93-20080725

[Joe Kelsey]

Richard (Rick) Seay wrote:
> I've run into a problem with the 2008-07-25 version of ksh93.  In a 
> login shell, the following causes ksh to hang:
>
> echo x | grep y
>
Nothing comes to mind for this error.  You might try emailing the 
developers list at ast-developers at research.att.com or contact David or 
Glenn directly.  The only problems I can solve are related to building 
and installing on FreeBSD.

/Joe

there is a link to the mail lists from the standard AT&T research 
software web page, www.research.att.com/sw/download/

> Note that it must be a login shell using the console.  A subshell 
> works fine.  This problem does not appear using the 2008-02-02 version.
>
> $ uname -a
> FreeBSD KCHV5GC 7.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE #3: Wed Apr 23 
> 15:29:14 EDT 2008     root at KCHV5GC:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/KERNEL  i386
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> Richard Seay
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