bin/52746: tcsh fails to handle large arguements

[Mark.Andrews at isc.org]

> Synopsis: tcsh fails to handle large arguements
> 
> State-Changed-From-To: open->feedback
> State-Changed-By: dwmalone
> State-Changed-When: Mon Jun 2 07:31:17 PDT 2003
> State-Changed-Why: 
> Mark,
> 
> I'd run into this problem a few years ago, but never had a chance
> to get to the bottom of it.  From running ktrace, it looks like
> this problem is related to vfork.  For me, running tcsh with the
> -F flag (ie., use fork not vfork) seems to work around the problem.

	Same here.
 
> I'm guessing what is happening is that something is handling the
> arg too long error and clobbering the vforked stack.

	Sounds like a reasonable supposition.

>  I'll try to
> do a bit more digging, but you might like to check if-F helps in
> your case too...
> 
> 	David.
> 
> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=52746
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