tcsh hang with long input line (Re: TCSH crash)

Lowell Gilbert freebsd-questions-local at be-well.ilk.org
Mon Nov 22 12:46:49 PST 2004


"Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." <kdk at daleco.biz> writes:

> scuba at centroin.com.br wrote:
> 
> >Hi all,
> >
> >        Is it a known problem?
> >
> >
> >>perl -e 'for $i (0..10000){ print $i ; }' > trash
> >>`cat trash`
> >>
> >Word too long.
> >^C^C^C
> >
> >
> >        The tcsh halt with this. Either FreeBSD 4.9 or BSDI 4.3.
> >
> >
> >- Marcelo Souza
> >
> 
> Hmm, doesn't happen here on 5.3.  How much RAM on
> your box?

It's a hang,  not a crash.  

It happens on my RELENG_5 machine, updated within the last week.

-- 
Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area
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