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From: kupfer@orc.olivetti.com (Mike Kupfer)
Newsgroups: gnu.gdb.bug
Subject: info sought on sh environment bug
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Date: 6 Dec 89 01:28:26 GMT
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The 3.0 version of infrun.c talks about a bug in sh that can hit when
you have a large environment.  The suggested workaround is to kill
some environment variables using "unset env".

Right at the moment I have to reduce my environment to a couple
hundred bytes in order to avoid this problem.  I think that's a bit
silly, so I would prefer to hack sh, either to fix the bug, or to at
least allow a larger environment before triggering the bug.  Could
someone please either explain the bug to me or point me at the code to
look at?  I've got 4.3-Tahoe sources.

thanks,

Mike Kupfer		kupfer@orc.olivetti.com		415-496-6238
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