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From: Zoltan Hidvegi <hzoli@cs.elte.hu>
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Subject: Re: seg fault on $(dgqhghdqwdhqwjq) : beta19
To: heading_anthony@jpmorgan.com (Anthony Heading)
Date: Mon, 27 May 1996 03:13:45 +0200 (MET DST)
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> Rather a large core file, but it takes no time to dump.  So maybe
> it's not real. A peculiarity of SunOS 4.1.3?
> 
> Anthony
> 
> res1% $(wekdwqw)
> zsh: command not found: wekdwqw
> zsh: 21441 segmentation fault  $(wekdwqw)

It always happens when prefork() in execcmd() removes all arguments.
Eg. $foo triggers the bug if foo is not set.  Richard did several changes
related to this and I think this bug appeared with these changes.  Richard,
could you check it?

Zoltan