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From: Riccardo Torrini <riccardo@torrini.org>
To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
Subject: RE: tcsh hang in -current (kse bug?)
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On 06-Oct-2002 (23:10:55/GMT) Kris Kennaway wrote:

> Can anyone else reproduce this in tcsh?
> rpcgen -s `perl -e 'print "a"x50000'`
> Word too long.

Mee too mail.  Using {50,500,5000} works, hang only with 50000
(not tested with others numbers).  Doing:
# echo {your_command}
print only "word too long" without hang.


> And then tcsh will hang in a state unresponsive to signals.

And 'ps -auxwww' was unable to find neither rpcgen nor perl.


All of this with a not too recent system, build on 24.9.2002 with:

        *default date=2002.09.09.00.00.42


Riccardo.

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