On Thu, Jul 14, 2005 at 04:00:42PM +0200, Tobias Diedrich wrote: > Package: xterm > Version: 6.8.2.dfsg.1-2 > Severity: normal > > > With the old xterm, > "xterm -e 'while true; echo foo; sleep 5; done'" > would work just fine, now xterm pops up for a split-second and > vanishes. > "xterm -e '/bin/bash'" seems to work fine though. > "xterm -e '/bin/bash -c \"while true; echo foo; sleep 5; done\"'" > however does again not work. This sounds like a bug from xterm patch #201 which is fixed in #203:
http://invisible-island.net/xterm/xterm.log.html Patch #203 - 2005/7/6 - XFree86 4.5.99.7 * amend change to command-line processing in patch #201 to avoid conflict with -e option (report by Servatius Brandt). -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net
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