It used to be that which started out as: #! /usr/bin/csh
At some later time it changed to: #! /usr/bin/csh -f Now I see that there is an explicit sourcing of the .cshrc, undoing the benefit of -f. $ grep source /usr/bin/which if ( -r ~/.cshrc && -f ~/.cshrc ) source ~/.cshrc which should do something (e.g. use an environment variable) to prevent recursion. Mike On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 9:58 AM, Daniel Templeton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So, correct me if I'm wrong, but shouldn't csh -f ignore the $HOME/.cshrc > file? That totally explains the non--f behavior I was seeing, though, as > James also pointed out. > > Thanks, > Daniel > > Mike Gerdts wrote: >> >> On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 12:38 AM, Daniel Templeton >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> >>> Hi. I'm trying to build the SFW consolidation on Nevada, but I'm running >>> into a nasty issue, and I need a sanity check about it. When I run (or more >>> probalematicallly, when configure runs) "csh -f /usr/bin/which which", I >>> basically get a fork bomb: >>> >>> >>>> >>>> ps | wc -l >>>> >>> >>> 3 >>> >>>> >>>> date >>>> >>> >>> Thu Jul 10 22:16:26 PDT 2008 >>> >>>> >>>> csh -f /usr/bin/which which & >>>> >>> >>> [1] 9481 >>> >>>> >>>> ps | grep which | wc -l >>>> >>> >>> 2341 >>> >>>> >>>> date >>>> >>> >>> Thu Jul 10 22:16:49 PDT 2008 >>> >>> Every which forks off another which, that forks off another which, ad >>> nonswapeum. I've tried it both with 79a and 91 (different slices of the >>> same FS). I need a sanity check here. Can anyone else reproduce this >>> issue? >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Daniel >>> >> >> Does your ~/.cshrc call which? One of the first thing that which does >> is source your .cshrc. which is a bad, evil, misleading command. It >> doesn't tell you about your current environment (which may be >> different than defined in ~/.cshrc) especially if your shell is >> something decent (anything but *csh). >> >> > -- Mike Gerdts http://mgerdts.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ opensolaris-code mailing list opensolaris-code@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/opensolaris-code
