Csh bug? (Grows forever)

Esa K Viitala esa at kvvax4.UUCP
Fri May 11 00:17:58 AEST 1984


>>We have recently purchased a number of Venix's and noticed that their csh
>>seems to grow ad nauseum, eventually blowing out its (small/medium model) data
>>segment.  Thought this was just a bad port on Venturcom's part......

>The same thing seems to happen under xenix's csh, I have no reason why,
>but when it runs out of space, it is not handled very gracefully....
>(i.e., core dump time)

Here too, I think. We have 4.1bsd/vax11/780, and occasionally
csh says 'assertion botched <something or other>' and then nothing.
This comes from a memory allocation routine, I forgot the name, if
either the chain of blocks has corrupted or the the chain is empty.
I've concluded that it ain't corrupted.

Fixes anybody?
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