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fix smes comment block (copied from pbsh.s)

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Phil Budne
2016-03-07 17:58:09 -05:00
parent b871c2214d
commit 9c8cc278a4

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@@ -736,13 +736,13 @@ sub sys_fork {
}
# shell depends on smes hanging while child process exists
" https://www.bell-labs.com/usr/dmr/www/hist.html
" The message facility was used as follows: the parent shell, after
" creating a process to execute a command, sent a message to the new
" process by smes; when the command terminated (assuming it did not
" try to read any messages) the shell's blocked smes call returned an
" error indication that the target process did not exist. Thus the
" shell's smes became, in effect, the equivalent of wait.
# https://www.bell-labs.com/usr/dmr/www/hist.html
# The message facility was used as follows: the parent shell, after
# creating a process to execute a command, sent a message to the new
# process by smes; when the command terminated (assuming it did not
# try to read any messages) the shell's blocked smes call returned an
# error indication that the target process did not exist. Thus the
# shell's smes became, in effect, the equivalent of wait.
sub sys_smes {
waitpid($AC,0);
dprintf("smes returning error\n");