OT: SCO 6.0 - MAJOR BUG!!!!!

[Jean-Pierre A. Radley]

John Esak propounded (on Sat, Oct 22, 2005 at 06:14:36PM -0400):
| Here is the old scenario. Imagine you are *running* rclerk. As the root user
| you go to some other session and try and do:
| 
|     cp /tmp/fred /u/appl/fp/rclerk
| 
| You will get a message something like cP can't do this for you because the
| text file is busy... etc., etc. This is fine and I think it should work this
| way.  On the new 6.0, if you do the very same thing (and imagine /tmp/fred
| to be a 6 byte file that holds the word "hello") what will happen is exactly
| this. You get back your prompt as if the /tmp/fred file *has* been copied
| over the top of the *running* rclerk file.  You know why? BECAUSE IT
| HAS!!!!!
| 
| The very next keystroke from the person who is *running* the rclerk
| generates a core dump!  This happens with any program and copying over it,
| etc. It is just unbelievable. If there were 20 people running rclerk, 20
| people each get core dumps on their next keystroke. This is just simply
| stupid, and in my opinion is a severe bug in the way things work.
| 
| Okay, I'm ready to be told why this is some kind of a good idea and not a
| pure giant bug.

It's a major bug, and I've posted your report to the people who can fix it.

| And just for grins, though I know it has been discussed (probably) here
| before. Exactly what benefit was gained from totaly screwing the ansi
| console emulation into the new completely broken and nearly usefless
| at386ie? I"m so glad I don't have to work on the conole... who makes these
| decisions, and why don't they provide something to help you mkae this
| conversion successfully if they feel things must be changed. Such a big
| pain.

It's neither broken nor useless; it's the Unixware console.

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JP