[18749] in Athena Bugs
Re: linux 8.4.19: add
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Sat Feb 3 16:16:43 2001
Message-Id: <200102032116.QAA01489@egyptian-gods.MIT.EDU>
To: Arun A Tharuvai <aatharuv@MIT.EDU>
Cc: bugs@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 02 Feb 2001 18:32:14 EST."
<200102022332.SAA10263@pickled-herring.mit.edu>
Date: Sat, 03 Feb 2001 16:16:37 -0500
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
> It returns the error "Word too long.", and
> /mit/hfstools/arch/i386_linux22/bin should have been
> added to my path.
Is there anything in particular you want us to do about this bug? We
don't have the resources to reimplement tcsh so that it doesn't have
arbitrary limits, and we can't make "add" work when that limit is
reached. (We can't even really improve on the error handling, without
making "add" know some very intimate things about the implementation
of the calling shell.)
