Thanks to Tom Pollard for passing on that additional information. 
But I see something slightly different from what he observed 
back in December:

> First, I discovered one other interesting characteristic - in my 
> testing,
> it looked like the bug only appeared when the executable name had a 
> length
> which was a multiple of four.  So, an executable called "demo" 
> manifested
> the problem, and so did an executable named "demodemo"; but executables
> named "d", "de", "dem", "demo5", "demo66", and "demo777" (all created 
> from
> the same "demo.pl" script) all seemed to work normally.

I see now that I can get it to fail with an executable name 
whose length is _not_ a multiple of 4. I just have to try 
export X=1, export X=11, export X=111, until I hit a length 
which breaks it.

-- Mark

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