Re: TCSH problems?

[sean <sean () cyc com>]

%setenv HOME `perl -e 'print "/" x 10000'`
Word too long
% uname -a
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-_Sean_-

"So you'll die happily for your sins, but you'd rather die in guilt
than live in love??" --Timothy Leary

On Wed, 6 Jun 2001, Lee Smith wrote:

> here is my go at it:
>
> % setenv HOME `perl -e 'print "/" x 10000'`
> Word too long.
> % uname -a
> FreeBSD decepticon 4.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.0-RELEASE #5: Mon Oct 30 07:40:43
> CST 2000     root@decepticon:/usr/src/sys/compile/DECEPTICON  i386
> %
>
>
> On Wed, 6 Jun 2001 03:01:01 -0400 (EDT)
> Alex <alex () bsdfreak org> 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