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Re: TCSH problems?
From: "Nasko Oskov" <compnetsecurity () hotmail com>
Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2001 18:34:14 +0300
After some ktracing, and code auditing by myself and a colleague, we believe the problem *may* infact be in libc's setenv() and getenv() functions. We were able to duplicate the bug on various platforms, mostly causing signal 6s and dumping cores. Feedback would be appreciated > > setenv HOME `perl -e 'print "/" x 10000'` ^ Length varies from 1024-10000 for effectiveness on diffrent OSes.
nasko@digital:~$ tcsh
setenv HOME `perl -e 'print "/" x 10000'`
Aborted nasko@digital:~$ uname -a Linux digital 2.2.19 #2 SMP Sat Jun 2 12:23:40 AKDT 2001 i686 unknown nasko@digital:~$ Platform: Slack current Nasko _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com.
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