Re: TCSH problems?

["Kevin J. Menard, Jr." <kmenard () WPI EDU>]

Hey Alex,

    I tried it on a SunOS 5.6 box, and got the following:

    kmenard:1> setenv HOME `perl -e 'print "/" x 10000'`
    Abort (core dumped)

    Then cd ~ worked fine.
-- 
 Kevin

Wednesday, June 06, 2001, 3:01:01 AM, you wrote:

A> Hi,

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

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

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

A> -Alex