Quick question here: usually, the dreaded "word too long" problem appears because the _current_shell_ does not know how to handle the command line. By any (un)luck, weren't you guys running tcsh as you command shell, instead of bash/sh ? /Bruno P.S: the problem happends on my RH 6.2 box too... $ cat /etc/issue Red Hat Linux release 6.2 (Zoot) Kernel 2.4.13 on an i686 $ vim `perl -e 'print "A"x1200'` Vim: Caught deadly signal SEGV Vim: Finished. $ vim --help VIM - Vi IMproved 5.7 (2000 Jun 24, compiled Jan 31 2001 06:10:12) (...) -----Original Message----- From: dotslashat_private [mailto:dotslashat_private] Sent: Thursday, November 08, 2001 5:07 PM To: Walter Park Cc: ARAI Yuu; VULN-DEVat_private Subject: Re: Solaris 7 dtmailpr buffer overflow - word too long terminal freeze Speaking of terminal locking up... on OSX I noticed when I try to overflow buffers with perl -e print blah blah I get word too long at some point.... as soon as I hit the Word too long sweet spot ... give it a few more A's and it usually aggrivates the terminal to the point to which it is useless... does anyone know why? I think this gentleman below had the same sort of thing happen to him. -KF On Friday, November 9, 2001, at 06:42 AM, Walter Park wrote: > I can not reproduce this error: > > ------------------------------ > some.solaris: uname -a > SunOS some.machine.edu 5.7 Generic_106542-17 i86pc i386 i86pc > > some.solaris: /usr/dt/bin/dtmail -f `perl -e 'print "A"x1200'` > Word too long > ------------------------------ > Solaris 7 for Intel with the 7_x86_Recommended.zip patches from Sun. > It did lock up my terminal but no segfault and no core. > > Walt > >
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