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Re: TCSH problems?


From: Alex <alex () bsdfreak org>
Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2001 03:15:21 -0400 (EDT)

        Actually it seems the cd ~ is unnecessary and the number of /'s only
needs to be 1024 to cause the Abort, and subsequent core dumping.

-Alex

On Wed, 6 Jun 2001, Alex wrote:

Hi,

      I've been experimenting with this a bit, and it crashes TCSH
with an abort signal and dumps core on version 6.09.03 under OpenBSD 2.9:

setenv HOME `perl -e 'print "/" x 10000'`
cd ~

      Is anyone else able to reproduce this?  I know the problem itself
has little impact or significance, if any.  But, I'm merely curious, so
please humor me. :-)

-Alex




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