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From: hansm@cwi.nl (Hans Mulder)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: csh core dump  (was: if-then-else in csh alias?)
Message-ID: <7441@boring.cwi.nl>
Date: Fri, 4-Sep-87 12:00:29 EDT
Article-I.D.: boring.7441
Posted: Fri Sep  4 12:00:29 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 5-Sep-87 18:05:56 EDT
References: <16128@teknowledge-vaxc.ARPA> <1376@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU>
Organization: CWI, Amsterdam
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Keywords: csh core dump
Summary: a quicker way to get csh to drop core

A quicker way to get csh to drop core:

$ HOME='xxx???yyy' csh
(null): No match.
Illegal instruction
$ 

Also works with PATH, TERM and USER.

For a change, you could try:

$ HOME='`/bin/date >/dev/tty`' csh
Fri Sep  4 17:50:22 MET DST 1987

This causes csh to hang.  It also leaves you a zombie process.  Apparently
csh does not wait for the child process it just forked off.
Note that you have to specify a full path name, because $path has not yet
been set, as you can observe by trying HOME='`set >/dev/tty`'.

					Hans Mulder
					hansm@cwi.nl