csh, echo `cd /tmp; echo *` dumps core

Felix Lee flee at shire.cs.psu.edu
Mon Sep 11 20:35:23 AEST 1989


addendum, it looks like a side effect of my 'cd' alias
	alias cd  'cd \!*; set argv = (`dirs`); shift'
so the statement
	echo `cd /tmp; echo *`
causes csh to do backquote substitution inside backquote substitution,
a condition that obviously never should occur, so dobackp() kindly
abort()s the child process.  Sigh.
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Felix Lee	flee at shire.cs.psu.edu	*!psuvax1!flee



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