On Thu, Jul 14, 2005 at 04:00:42PM +0200, Tobias Diedrich wrote:
> Package: xterm
> Version: 6.8.2.dfsg.1-2
> Severity: normal
>
>
> With the old xterm,
> "xterm -e 'while true; echo foo; sleep 5; done'"
> would work just fine, now xterm pops up for a split-second and
> vanishes.
> "xterm -e '/bin/bash'" seems to work fine though.
> "xterm -e '/bin/bash -c \"while true; echo foo; sleep 5; done\"'"
> however does again not work.
This sounds like a bug from xterm patch #201 which is fixed in #203:
http://invisible-island.net/xterm/xterm.log.html
Patch #203 - 2005/7/6 - XFree86 4.5.99.7
* amend change to command-line processing in patch #201 to avoid
conflict with -e option (report by Servatius Brandt).
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Thomas E. Dickey
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