Re: WWW Form Bug Report: "Problem with comment "eval" on "sh"" on OSF/1 (fwd)

["Dirk.vanGulik" <Di...@jrc.it>]

Ok,

The problem on OSF1 V.2.0 was fixed by supplying the guy a copy of the
shell. Apperantly there is a buglett in OSF/1 V.2.0 :-) There is an
upgrade for people with that version avaine

Should this go into the apache docs somewhere ? It seems to be very
old (from what I heard (neil.corlett@jrc.it) it was the first about 
usable version of OSF, which was upgraded to V3 shortly afterwards, 
so we should not worry about it tooo much ? 

Entry for the INSTALL file
	- On very early versions of OSF/1, V2, the 'eval' function
	  during installation might hang/run out of memory. But you
	  should have upgraded years ago. :-)

Dw.

> 
> Fixed.  Good stuff. :)  I've included a MIME copy of our shell so that you
> can try it out if you'd like.
> 
> On Thu, 5 Dec 1996, Dirk.vanGulik wrote:
> 
> > Ok
> > 
> > 
> > I've plopped you one as uu-encoded.
> > 
> > Let me know where you get. So we can add it to the faq.
> > 
> > Dw.
> > 
> > > The version of OSF we are running (from uname -a):
> > > OSF1 alpha3.vaxxine.com V2.0 240 alpha
> > > 
> > > sum -r /bin/sh:
> > > 34292    136 /bin/sh
> > > 
> > > ls -la /bin/sh:
> > > -rwxr-xr-x   2 bin      bin       139264 Feb 22  1994 /bin/sh*
> > > 
> > > If someone wants to send me a newer sh binary I can try running it under our
> > > version of OSF/1 to see if it's any happier.  I emulated the steps used on
> > > the newer version of OSF/1 and this was my output:
> > > 
> > > -- Pasted session --
> > > 
> > > $cat > a
> > > #! /bin/sh
> > > 
> > > tx=#
> > > ty=/tmp
> > > 
> > > eval $tx $ty
> > > echo "Done OK"
> > > $chmod a+x a
> > > $./a
> > > swap space below 10 percent free
> > > Unable to obtain requested swap space
> > > Unable to obtain requested swap space
> > > ./a: no space
> > > $time ./a
> > > swap space below 10 percent free
> > > Unable to obtain requested swap space
> > > Unable to obtain requested swap space
> > > ./a: no space
> > > 0.243u 14.155s 0:14.66 98.1% 0+2k 0+2io 25pf+0w
> > > $uname -a
> > > OSF1 alpha3.vaxxine.com V2.0 240 alpha
> > > $exit
> > > 
> > > -- End Pasted Session --
> > > 
> > > At 02:14 PM 12/5/96 +0100, you wrote:
> > > >
> > > >Hmm, I've got a
> > > >
> > > >#uname -a
> > > >OSF1 stimsrv.sti.jrc.it V3.2 41 alpha (6 processor(s) enabled)
> > > >
> > > >box here; and things look fine to me. Anyone any ideas, I tried
> > > >some older version of OSF... but no cookie sofar.
> > > >
> > > >Dw.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >--
> > > >$cat > a
> > > >#! /bin/sh
> > > >
> > > ># 'ty' can actually be set to anything - file,
> > > ># directory, junk value, etc., so it doesn't
> > > ># appear to be some kind of weird "I'll try
> > > ># and execute the directory" thing.
> > > >
> > > >tx=#
> > > >ty=/tmp
> > > >
> > > >eval $tx $ty
> > > >echo "Done OK"
> > > >$
> > > >$chmod a+x a
> > > >$./a
> > > >Done OK
> > > >$time ./a
> > > >Done OK
> > > >0.00u 0.01s 0:00 100% 0+0k 0+0io 0pf+0w
> > > >$
> > > >$uname -a
> > > >OSF1 stimsrv.sti.jrc.it V3.2 41 alpha (6 processor(s) enabled)
> > > >$
> > > >exit
> > > --
> > > Rob Kreamer                                *  develop@vaxxine.com
> > > (Vaxxinated) Software Development Manager  *  http://vaxxine.com/kreamer
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