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Re: No TTY after su -- can't edit history!



> I have just got zsh-2.6-beta10 succesfully compiled it under Solaris 2.3
> and after playing a while I have noticed following feature:
> when I do following steps:
> 	1. su
> 	2. su - user
> 	3. zsh
> then I can not edit the history.
> As far as I could trace the problem it comes from the fact that
> in step 2 Solaris does not change the owner of /dev/pts/? and as a result
> in zsh the symbol TTY is empty and can not be set.
> I am not sure if this should be fixed in zsh or in Solaris.
> 	Jerzy

Yes, this is a known bug.  It will be fixed in beta11.  Beta11
should be available in a couple of weeks.

Richard Coleman
coleman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx



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