Re: recent /bin/sh core dumping

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From: Smith and O'Halloran
Date: Mon, 02 Nov 1998 00:00

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In article <363a5c8b$0$29747@nntp1.ba.best.com>,
Kim DeVaughn <kimdv@best.com> wrote:
>In the past few days, I've had several of my shell scripts core dump for no
>apparent reason.  These have been very different scripts, some of which have
>been working for years without problems.  Subsequent execution of the same
>scripts have been without incident.

I have not seen that problem here, but some years back it bit me on a
SunOS system.  The temporary workaround was to put
	DUMMY="1234567890"; export DUMMY
in the script that called the one that failed.  It appeared that the failure
occured only when the total size of the ENV variables was exactly n*1024.
Then a new version of the OS came out and I never saw the problem again.
	-Joe
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From: inwap@best.com (Smith and O'Halloran)
Subject: Re: recent /bin/sh core dumping
Date: 1998/11/02
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