> Lastly, while doing some testing, I discovered that setting my TERM
> variable to a 256-character string under Solaris 2.5.1 caused my bash
> shell session to crash, dump core and log me out. This may or may not have
> been mentioned on Bugtraq before, and may or may not be due to missing
> patches.
tcsh:
pir@foo> uname -a
SunOS foo 5.6 Generic sun4m sparc SUNW,SPARCstation-5
pir@foo> setenv TERM "1234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012
34567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456
78901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345645678901234567
89012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789"
tcsh: using dumb terminal settings.
Bus error (core dumped)
pir@bar> uname -a
SunOS bar 5.5.1 Generic_103640-12 sun4m sparc SUNW,SPARCstation-10
pir@bar> setenv TERM "1234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012
34567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456
78901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345645678901234567
89012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789"
tcsh: using dumb terminal settings.
Bus error (core dumped)
As far as I know, these two machines are up to date in all relavant patches.
2.6:
sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, 0xEFFFBDE0, 0x00000000) = 0
open("/usr/share/lib/terminfo/1/1234567890123456789012345678901234567890
123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012
345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234
564567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123
456789", O_RDONLY) Err#78 ENAMETOOLONG
access("/usr/share/lib/terminfo/.", 0) = 0
tcsh: using dumb terminal settings.
write(1, " t c s h : u s i n g ".., 36) = 36
ioctl(16, TIOCGWINSZ, 0xEFFFBDD8) = 0
sigprocmask(SIG_UNBLOCK, 0xEFFFBDE0, 0x00000000) = 0
close(0) = 0
close(1) = 0
close(2) = 0
open("/dev/null", O_RDONLY) = 0
fcntl(0, F_DUP2FD, 0x00000001) = 1
fcntl(0, F_DUP2FD, 0x00000002) = 2
sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, 0xEFFFE8D8, 0x00000000) = 0
ioctl(16, TIOCGWINSZ, 0xEFFFE8D0) = 0
sigprocmask(SIG_UNBLOCK, 0xEFFFE8D8, 0x00000000) = 0
sigprocmask(SIG_UNBLOCK, 0xEFFFE9C0, 0x00000000) = 0
Incurred fault #5, FLTACCESS %pc = 0x00035DB8
siginfo: SIGBUS BUS_ADRALN addr=0x3334353A
Received signal #10, SIGBUS [default]
siginfo: SIGBUS BUS_ADRALN addr=0x3334353A
*** process killed ***
bash 2.01 on 2.6 or 2.5.1 seems to cope with this just fine.
Whos the tcsh maintaner these days :)
P.
-- Peter Radcliffe | pir@shore.net | Shore.net systems administrator.