[14931] in Athena Bugs

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Re: sgi 8.0I: tcsh

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Thu Jan 30 18:52:15 1997

Date: Thu, 30 Jan 1997 23:52:15 GMT
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
To: Jonathan Litt <littlitt@MIT.EDU>
Cc: bugs@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: "[14822] in Athena Bugs"

> 'limit coredumpsize 0' doesn't fully work in tcsh 6.0.4 and older
> (i.e, the Sun/SGI versions that are installed in /bin/athena/tcsh.)
> Instead of preventing core files from being created at all, as it
> should, it creates core files with a max size of 512 bytes.

This bug should be fixed in the Athena 8.1 release (although I don't
think we will be upgrading to tcsh 6.07).

Incidentally, a workaround is to do "limit coredumpsize 0 k".

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