[4281] in RedHat Linux List
redhat-4.0, csh is broken
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kayvan Sylvan)
Wed Nov 13 19:18:54 1996
Date: Wed, 13 Nov 96 16:15 PST
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From: Kayvan Sylvan <kayvan@sylvan.com>
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I'm running Redhat 4.0:
Here's an interesting set of behaviors:
[kayvan@satyr cmail]$ pwd
/home/kayvan/etc/chess/cmail
[kayvan@satyr cmail]$ csh
Segmentation fault (core dumped)
gdb says /bin/csh core dumps in libc malloc(). Installing libc-gnumalloc
does not fix the problem, it still dumps core in malloc().
Now, starting it with an empty environment works:
[kayvan@satyr cmail]$ env -i csh
%
And... renaming the current directory also works!
[kayvan@satyr chess]$ mv cmail cmai
[kayvan@satyr chess]$ cd cmai/
[kayvan@satyr cmai]$ csh
[kayvan@satyr]$
Here's another variant!!! Lengthening the directory name??!
[kayvan@satyr chess]$ mv cmail cmail2
[kayvan@satyr chess]$ cd cmail2
[kayvan@satyr cmail2]$ csh
[kayvan@satyr]$
This looks like some kind of bug in csh. Has anyone else seen anything
like this?
tcsh works correctly in all these cases, BTW.
---Kayvan
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