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From: sow@ulmo1.mt.luth.se (Sven-Ove Westberg)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: csh core dumping
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Date: 19 Dec 88 20:25:17 GMT
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In article <17890@adm.BRL.MIL> reschly@BRL.MIL (Robert J. Reschly Jr.) writes:
|
|      Joe,
|
|   On a Gould 6080 running UTX2.0u06 (mostly 4.3ish) with a number of
|local hacks, the csh did not dump, but the tcsh did.  A quick look with
|adb showed that tcsh was calling strcmp with a NULL pointer.
				  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
|   Given that tcsh is derived from csh, I suspect that you are
|experiencing similar troubles. 


Please note that he got an error on a VAX runnig bsd4.3 also. I took
a quick look with dbx and it is NOT a NULL pointer. 


Sven-Ove Westberg, CAD, University of Lulea, S-951 87 Lulea, Sweden.
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