Possible SunView bug under 4.1 ?

[Dean Grover]

I have found a "difference" in the way 4.0.3 and 4.1 handle entries in the
SunView root menu.

If I add a line like

"TEST tool"	shelltool -I "cd ~user ; who"

to my root menu, and select this menu entry, sunview goes into an infinite
loop.  trace displays the following:

...
open ("/etc/passwd", 0, 0666) = 10
ioctl (10, 0x40125401, 0xf7ffd274) = -1 ENOTTY(Inappropriate ioctl for device)
fstat (10, 0xf7ffd2e8) = 0
read (10, "root:F/Jil7f7mcE7vw:0:1:Operator:".., 8192) = 1075
read (10, "", 8192) = 0
close (10) = 0
...(kill the sunview pid)

Under 4.0.3, this performed as expected.  Note that changing the line to:
"TEST tool"	shelltool -I "cd /home/user ; who"  works fine.

This has been demonstrated on a Sun 4/260 and 4/370 under 4.1

Am I doing something wrong ?  Or is it a bug ?

Dean Grover
Hughes Aircraft Co.
adgrover at hac2arpa.hac.com or grover at sed170.hac.com