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

[Frank Wortner]

In article <FLEE.89Sep11063523 at shire.cs.psu.edu>, flee at shire.cs.psu.edu (Felix Lee) writes:
= 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.

Yup, you're right.  It's amazing how things that are "never supposed
to happen" happen with frightening frequency.  ... double sigh.

					Frank