On Mon, Apr 16, 2001 at 04:48:06PM -0400, Robert Sink wrote:
> I've tried:
>
> TZ=`/usr/local/bin/perl -e 'print "A"x1107'`
>
> ...on... both 64 bit Solaris 8 and Solaris 7 (we have no 32 bit
> machines here) and cannot get the programs to crash. They just
> happily display the A's, plus the other information and exit normally.
>
> Solaris 7: SunOS xxx 5.7 Generic_106541-12 sun4u sparc
> Solaris 8: SunOS xxx 5.8 Generic_108528-05 sun4u sparc
>
It worked on my 32 bit Solaris 7 only when I made the TZ variable larger.
$ TZ=`perl -e 'print "A" x 10000'`
$ ipcs
Segmentation Fault
SunOS blue 5.7 Generic_106541-11 sun4u sparc SUNW,UltraSPARC-IIi-Engine
