RE: TCSH problems?

From: Yonatan Bokovza (Yonatanat_private)
Date: Wed Jun 06 2001 - 08:17:59 PDT

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    Hi,
    I can't reproduce it on FreeBSD 4.3 of 29/05/2001 with TCSH
    6.10.0000.
    On any value larger than 10234 I get "Word too long" from
    setenv, and if the value is correct "cd ~" goes to /
    Yonatan.
    
    > -----Original Message-----
    > From: Alex [mailto:alexat_private]
    > Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2001 10:01
    > To: vuln-devat_private
    > Subject: TCSH problems?
    > 
    > 
    > Hi,
    > 
    > 	I've been experimenting with this a bit, and it crashes TCSH
    > with an abort signal and dumps core on version 6.09.03 under 
    > OpenBSD 2.9:
    > 
    > setenv HOME `perl -e 'print "/" x 10000'`
    > cd ~
    > 
    > 	Is anyone else able to reproduce this?  I know the 
    > problem itself
    > has little impact or significance, if any.  But, I'm merely 
    > curious, so
    > please humor me. :-)
    > 
    > -Alex
    > 
    



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