Date: Tue, 03 Jun 2003 16:47:44 +1000 From: Mark.Andrews@isc.org To: David Malone <dwmalone@FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: bin/52746: tcsh fails to handle large arguements Message-ID: <200306030647.h536liK2036682@drugs.dv.isc.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 02 Jun 2003 07:36:23 MST." <200306021436.h52EaNvn060302@freefall.freebsd.org>
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> Synopsis: tcsh fails to handle large arguements > > State-Changed-From-To: open->feedback > State-Changed-By: dwmalone > State-Changed-When: Mon Jun 2 07:31:17 PDT 2003 > State-Changed-Why: > Mark, > > I'd run into this problem a few years ago, but never had a chance > to get to the bottom of it. From running ktrace, it looks like > this problem is related to vfork. For me, running tcsh with the > -F flag (ie., use fork not vfork) seems to work around the problem. Same here. > I'm guessing what is happening is that something is handling the > arg too long error and clobbering the vforked stack. Sounds like a reasonable supposition. > I'll try to > do a bit more digging, but you might like to check if-F helps in > your case too... > > David. > > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=52746 -- Mark Andrews, Internet Software Consortium 1 Seymour St., Dundas Valley, NSW 2117, Australia PHONE: +61 2 9871 4742 INTERNET: Mark.Andrews@isc.org
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