csh aborts with segmentation fault in RHEL 4.

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • csh aborts with segmentation fault in a multi-CPU environment.
$ cat test.sh
#!/bin/csh
while(1)
        echo "" | /bin/cat > /dev/null
end
$ ./test.sh & ./test.sh & ./test.sh & ./test.sh & ./test.sh &
[1] 19764
[2] 19765
[3] 19766
[4] 19767
[5] 19768


[5]    Segmentation fault            ./test.sh (core dumped)
[1]    Segmentation fault            ./test.sh (core dumped)
[3]    Segmentation fault            ./test.sh (core dumped)

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
  • tcsh-6.13-9.el4.1-ia64

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