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[Neil Martinsen-Burrell <nmb@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 2010-02-05 11:14 , Russel Winder wrote:
> I appreciate that this isn't so much a dark corner, more inside the
> event horizon of a black hole, but . . . 
> 
> If I connect to a Mac OS X machine using SSH over Ethernet, I get a
> terminal as per expectation.  (I should add that normally I am logged
> onto the console of the machine even though I don't actually use the
> console because various things to do with using Java on a Mac OS X
> machine require you to be logged onto the console before connecting via
> SSH over Ethernet.)
> 
> If I do:
> 
> 	bzr log
> 
> then the output appears on the terminal.  If I do:
> 
> 	bzr explorer .
> 
> then a window appears on the console, and nothing appears on the
> terminal, it just appears to have hung.  Both of these surprised me.  A
> lot.

This is the way that SSH connections to Mac OS X machines work.  If you
are logged in on the console and you start a graphical application in an
SSH session, that application can make its windows on the console.  No
output to the terminal is the ordinary behavior of the ``bzr explorer``
command and nothing different is happening here.

If you want to surprise yourself more, run a terminal on the console,
SSH to localhost and do "open -a TextEdit.app".  Bug or feature, it's up
to you, but this is the way OS X works.

-Neil