Re: TCSH problems?

[Lee Smith <lee () booksys com>]

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