MultiWindow Mode: stty speed = 0 on xterm cause rlogin to fail

Harold L Hunt II huntharo@msu.edu
Wed Feb 25 11:58:00 GMT 2004


This issue has to have something to do with the way that commands are 
launched from the .XWinrc menu, since launching an xterm from another 
xterm works just fine.  Here is the code that launches commands 
specified in the .XWinrc menus:

case CMD_EXEC:
if (fork()==0)
{
   struct rlimit rl;
   unsigned long i;

   /* Close any open descriptors except for STD* */
   getrlimit (RLIMIT_NOFILE, &rl);
   for (i = STDERR_FILENO+1; i < rl.rlim_cur; i++)
     close(i);

   /* Disassociate any TTYs */
   setsid();

   execl ("/bin/sh",
	 "/bin/sh",
	 "-c",
	 m->menuItem[j].param,
	 NULL);
   exit (0);
}

I'm looking into it a little bit, but I think that others could shed 
some light on this.

Harold



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