Asri-unix.336 net.unix-wizards utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!menlo70!sri-unix!allegra!psuvax!bear@Berkeley Sun Dec 27 11:24:34 1981 shell error We are having a unusual problem with shell (sh). If a daemon (like UUXQT) starts a program which executes execl("/bin/sh", "sh", "-c", "who one two three four five six", 0); two shells sh -c who one two three four five six sh -c who one two three four five six will appear. the second goes cpu bound and must be killed. if instead execl("/bin/sh", "sh", "-c", "who one two", 0); is executed or csh is used. the result is as exepected. the command 'who' is not importain. anyone have any ideas what is happening? allegra!psuvax!bear Robert Michael Owens ----------------------------------------------------------------- gopher://quux.org/ conversion by John Goerzen of http://communication.ucsd.edu/A-News/ This Usenet Oldnews Archive article may be copied and distributed freely, provided: 1. There is no money collected for the text(s) of the articles. 2. The following notice remains appended to each copy: The Usenet Oldnews Archive: Compilation Copyright (C) 1981, 1996 Bruce Jones, Henry Spencer, David Wiseman.