>>> "Akim" == Akim Demaille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
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>> However, pdksh-5.2.14 cannot run the testsuite. It hangs before doing
>> anything else and exits only few seconds after I send it SIGTERM.
Akim> It might be the same as with zsh: these shells want to load the full
Akim> case/esac and then run it. In the case of Zsh, it's only a matter of
Akim> waiting that it swallows all the swap, kills your machine, and then it
Akim> runs :)
FYI, the Zsh folks have uploaded Zsh 4.0.1-pre-2 yesterday with
a fix for this. ftp://ftp.zsh.org/pub/development/zsh-4.0.1-pre-2.tar.gz
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Alexandre Duret-Lutz