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Article #77Re: csh, echo `cd /tmp; echo *` dumps core
From: Frank Wortner
Date: Tue, 12 Sep 1989 12:43
Date: Tue, 12 Sep 1989 12:43
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In article <FLEE.89Sep11063523@shire.cs.psu.edu>, flee@shire.cs.psu.edu (Felix Lee) writes: = addendum, it looks like a side effect of my 'cd' alias = alias cd 'cd \!*; set argv = (`dirs`); shift' = so the statement = echo `cd /tmp; echo *` = causes csh to do backquote substitution inside backquote substitution, = a condition that obviously never should occur, so dobackp() kindly = abort()s the child process. Sigh. Yup, you're right. It's amazing how things that are "never supposed to happen" happen with frightening frequency. ... double sigh. Frank
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