From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262098AbTK1JyS (ORCPT ); Fri, 28 Nov 2003 04:54:18 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262101AbTK1JyS (ORCPT ); Fri, 28 Nov 2003 04:54:18 -0500 Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.224.249]:49830 "EHLO main.gmane.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262098AbTK1JyR (ORCPT ); Fri, 28 Nov 2003 04:54:17 -0500 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: mru@kth.se (=?iso-8859-1?q?M=E5ns_Rullg=E5rd?=) Subject: Re: Strange behavior observed w.r.t 'su' command Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2003 10:54:14 +0100 Message-ID: References: <20031128093929.13486.qmail@web40909.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.1002 (Gnus v5.10.2) XEmacs/21.4 (Rational FORTRAN, linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:dPfv0e7hN0FfzhCcgYUgyQ9UGfQ= Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Bradley Chapman writes: > Confirmed. I have a Red Hat 9 system running 2.6.0-test11 with glibc > 2.3.2-82 and coreutils 4.5.3-19.0.2. Killing su with SIGKILL does > put the keyboard into unbuffered mode and does alternate the > prompts. No error messages appear in dmesg. Does anyone know why redhat keeps doing these strange modifications? Over the years, I've encountered quite a few problems caused by redhat messing things up. A few examples: - gcc 2.96 - A rather recent redhat version shipped with a broken 'sort' command. It performed a seemingly random permutation. - Redhat 9 perl doesn't treat rexexps the same way a clean perl of the same version does. Anyway, I guess it could be over soon, if only people would understand to stay away from that fedora stuff. -- Måns Rullgård mru@kth.se