Subject: Re: bin/198: file(1) core dumps
To: Bob Kemp <rsk@ecs.soton.ac.uk>
From: Chris G. Demetriou <cgd@postgres.Berkeley.EDU>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 04/06/1994 11:35:04
> System: NetBSD allegory 0.9a ALLEGORY#0 i386
> >Description:
> file(1) core dumps when called with /etc/* but
> not when called on them individually, ie
>
> file /etc/* { core dumps }
>
> foreach f(/etc/*) { works ok }
> file $f
> end
>
> >How-To-Repeat:
> Uudecode the following shell script and execute it. Altering
> "irrelevant" details in it can cause it to not core dump.
> For example, it seems important that you use /tmp not
> /tmp/zz. Run it on a machine where you can delete all
> other files in /tmp and don't run it under X11 (perhaps
> pseudo ttys screw it up).
>
> I won't be surprised if you can't repeat it. It's taken
> me a few hours to get it to be this solid :-(
>
> [ ... ]
>
> >Fix:
> Your turn.
As you may have guessed, i wasn't able to replicate this...
has anybody else tried it, and been 'successful'?
chris
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