Re: TCSH problems?

[Edsel Adap <edsel () adap org>]

This seems to be intentional, or perhaps the author didn't want to
think about how to handle this error.

The abort call happens in sh.dir.c in the function dcanon().
If the directory being canonicalized is longer than MAXPATHLEN, abort()
is called.  dcanon() does not seem to be able to return a failure. Any
failure in dcanon is handled by a call to abort() because every call to
dcanon() assumes dcanon() is successful.

On Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 03:01:01AM -0400, 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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