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Re: TCSH problems?


From: Flux9 <flux9 () 101freeway net>
Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2001 08:13:50 +0000

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

Slackware 7.1, TCSH version 6.09 (from /var/log/packages/tcsh)

root@nyx:~# gdb /bin/tcsh
<snip>
# setenv HOME `perl -e 'print "/" x 10000'`

Program received signal SIGABRT, Aborted.
0x18d9f1 in kill () from /lib/libc.so.6

- Max


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