Re: 3 Questions
On Mon, 17 Jun 1996, Mark Phillips wrote:
> >Maybe - do this on a running tcsh whose pid is xxx:
> >
> >cat /proc/xxx/environ | xargs -0n1 | grep '^TERM='
> >
> >to see what tcsh was passed as the TERM. It should be the same in the
> >actual shell.
>
> I did this - the environ file is empty!!! What could be wrong?
I doubt the file was empty. You can't view it with less or something
because it stats as zero size. Just cat it. Use the xargs line to format
it nicely.
> Why will the problem go away - what's wrong with using the "-detach"
> option?
It'll still have a controlling terminal. If you're using a shell
without job control (sh), it'll be in the same process group as the shell.
Guy
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