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From: ford@crash.cts.com (Michael Ditto)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att
Subject: Re: Bugs in (3B1) 3.51 tbl|nroff|col, ksh
Message-ID: <2210@crash.cts.com>
Date: 27 Dec 87 18:14:00 GMT
References: <2556@fluke.COM> <5836@jhunix.UUCP>
Reply-To: ford%kenobi@crash.CTS.COM (Michael Ditto)
Organization: Crash TS, El Cajon, CA
Lines: 22
Keywords: ksh, emacs, overflow, bug, fix
Summary: ksh emacs mode line overflow bug has been fixed by AT&T

In article <5836@jhunix.UUCP> ins_anmy@jhunix.UUCP (Norman Yarvin) writes:
>In article <2556@fluke.COM> bhaskar@tc.fluke.COM (K.S. Bhaskar) writes:
>>The following causes ksh to die and leave a core dump.
>>  [ ... example of ksh bug ... ]

>It is much easier to blow up ksh in the following manner:  press your hand
>flat down on the keyboard, and perform CPR (i.e. make lots of keypresses.)
> [ ... ]

It even easier to just hold down a repeating key.  When the line contains
about 100 characters, ksh will dump core.

Note that this bug only occurs in Emacs editing mode, as far as I know.

I reported this bug to the AT&T Hotline several months ago and they sent
me a disk with a fixed ksh on it.  I'm sure they'll send it to anyone
who asks, if they remember fixing it.
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