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From: Fabian Groffen <grobian@g.o>
To: gentoo-alt@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-alt] Non-existent commands hanging
Date: Tue, 05 Feb 2013 07:03:12
Message-Id: 20130205070331.GQ83094@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-alt] Non-existent commands hanging by William Morris
1 On 04-02-2013 20:00:40 -0500, William Morris wrote:
2 > Hi, I have Prefix installed on an iMac.
3 >
4 > When I run nonexistent commands in a Prefix shell, they hang,
5 > requiring ctrl-C to terminate.
6 >
7 > me@iMac ~/ $ which abc
8 > which: no abc in (/Users/me/Gentoo/usr/bin:\
9 > /Users/me/Gentoo/bin:\
10 > /Users/me/Gentoo/opt/bin:\
11 > /Users/me/Gentoo/usr/sbin:\
12 > /Users/me/Gentoo/sbin:\
13 > /Users/me/Gentoo/usr/x86_64-apple-darwin12/gcc-bin/4.2.1:\
14 > /usr/bin:\
15 > /bin)
16 > me@iMac ~/ $
17 > me@iMac ~/ $ abc
18 > ^C
19 > me@iMac ~/ $
20 >
21 > In a non-Prefix shell they just fail immediately:
22 > $ which abc
23 > $ abc
24 > -bash: abc: command not found
25 > $
26 >
27 > Any ideas why?
28
29 It may be that newer bash try to launch some program to figure out what
30 package abc provides. Don't know if/how this is in Gentoo, my Prefix
31 bash at least doesn't do it.
32
33
34 --
35 Fabian Groffen
36 Gentoo on a different level

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Re: [gentoo-alt] Non-existent commands hanging "Askar Bektassov (Аскар Бектасов)" <askar.bektassov@×××××.com>