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From: amos@taux01.UUCP (Amos Shapir)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: C shell script files
Message-ID: <469@taux01.UUCP>
Date: 28 Jan 88 22:05:46 GMT
References: <11333@brl-adm.ARPA> <3516@megaron.arizona.edu> <170@chessene.UUCP>
Reply-To: amos%taux01@nsc.com (Amos Shapir)
Organization: National Semiconductor (Israel) Ltd. Home of the 32532
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Hdate: 10 Shvat 5748

In article <170@chessene.UUCP> hermit@chessene.UUCP (Mark Buda) writes:
>Our sh(1) hangs on long shell scripts. My kingdom for a PD shell, or an sh to
>csh translator!!!!

This is a very old bug, due to the strange way in which sh manages its
memory allocation. The fix (or rather a patch that will prevent the bug
from hurting) is to comment out the body of the routine stakchk() in stak.c
(it's just 3 lines).

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