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Re: Backticks In zshenv

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From: Phil Pennock <phil@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Bart Schaefer)
Subject: Re: Backticks In zshenv
Date: Tue, 20 Oct 1998 20:30:52 +0100 (BST)
Cc: zsh-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
In-reply-to: <981020095542.ZM5494@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> from Bart Schaefer at "Oct 20, 98 09:55:42 am"

Typing away merrily, Bart Schaefer produced the immortal words:
> I ended up replacing `id -u` with $EUID and haven't seen any further
> problems.  I'd assumed it was something about the "id" program.
> 
> I suspect zsh is getting some kind of a signal -- perhaps SIGWINCH? --
> which is interrupting the read on the command substitution.

This makes sense.  When using zsh on Solaris, with a hack to start it
from /bin/sh, I found that resizing xterms during logon would sometimes
fail to set COLUMNS and LINES; I put this down to the weird setup and
just made sure I didn't resize.

I think it would have been: eval $(resize)

HTH
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References:
- Re: Backticks In zshenv
  - From: Bart Schaefer

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