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From: nagel@buckaroo.ICS.UCI.EDU (Mark Nagel)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: man dbm access causes core dump on Sun 4/OS 4.03
Keywords: core dump, patch 41, man
Message-ID: <25213.659656454@buckaroo.ics.uci.edu>
Date: 26 Nov 90 21:58:48 GMT
Reply-To: nagel@ICS.UCI.EDU
Organization: University of California, Irvine - Dept of ICS
Lines: 14
Phone: (714) 856-5039

I am using Tom Christianson's latest man program and under
patchlevel 41, on Sun 4/OS 4.03 systems, dbm access in that program
causes perl to dump core.  Note that this does not happen under OS
4.1, or any other hardware/OS combination I have access to.  Has
anyone else seen this behavior?  I reported this to Larry, but I
can't seem to isolate the problem enough to help him track it
down...  I'm trying to write some small scripts that cause identical
crashes, but for now I'm wondering if I'm the only one and more
importantly, if someone has found a fix for this.

Mark Nagel
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