Re: Strange behavior observed w.r.t 'su' command

[Andre Tomt]

On Fri, 2003-11-28 at 11:57, Tim Cambrant wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 28, 2003 at 10:15:50AM +0100, M?ns Rullg?rd wrote:
> > I can't reproduce it on Slackware running 2.6.0-test10.  It's probably
> > a redhat thing.
> 
> This problem also appears on Gentoo 1.4 running 2.6.0-test11. I don't
> know about the rest of the environment, but it's definately not just
> a RedHat thing. Could it have something to do with some library-version
> or something?

For whatever it's worth, I can't reproduce this on a Debian Sid system
with kernel version 2.4.23-rc1. I guess RH/Gentoo isn't killing off the
forked shell when su dies brutally, leaving the root shell and the user
shell fighting for the terminal.


-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/