Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!think.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!uunet!valid!jaswant!jaswant
From: jaswant@jaswant.valid.com (Jaswant Singh)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell
Subject: Shell core dump
Summary: Bourne Shell scripts core dumps when reading a file with functions
Message-ID: <475@valid.valid.com>
Date: 21 May 91 20:24:05 GMT
Sender: news@valid.com
Lines: 33


 Hi netters,
 I have a weird problem with shell script on sun machine runing SunOS 4.0.3.
 The following is description of the problem:

  Bourne shell scripts core dumps when reading a file with functions in it.
  An example of the shell program is:

  -------------------
  #!/bin/sh
  --
  . $DEFINITIONS
  . $FUNCTIONS
  --
   --
  ____________________

  $DEFINITONS is an enviormental variable.
  $FUNCTIONS is an enviormental variable.
   
  So, the program reads the $DEFINITONS and blows up at $FUNCTIONS and it
  core dumps. Message is either "segmentations faults or memory violations".

  This is problem just started happening after working for weeks on daily
  basis. If we try "sh <name of script>, it works fine.

  We 'll appreciate your valuable input.

  Thanks in advance.