unexplained cores after compiles

[Scot E Wilcoxon]

In article <3986 at cbnews.ATT.COM> res at cbnews.ATT.COM (Robert E. Stampfli) writes:
>I have noticed that occasionally I will get a core dump immediately after
>invoking a program on the Unix-PC, usually upon trying to run it after
>it has just finished compiling.  Simply reinvoking the program without
>...
>however, all running version 3.5 of the Unix-PC operating system. 

Under 3.5 I was having the same problem regularly.  I was compiling under
make(1) and during the compilations I'd type the name of the program.  As
soon as the make finished, the freshly compiled program would often
core dump instead of executing.  A `sleep 15` stopped the problem.
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