Bug: Perl globbing command aborts without any errors and warnings.

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Migrated from rt.perl.org#1891 (status was 'resolved')

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From Yen-Hung_Chen@i2.com

Yen-Hung Chen

My perl script is​:

#!/usr/local/bin/perl -w

while (defined ($profile = <*.pf>)) {
  chomp($profile);
  print "$profile,";
}

The script aborts without printing anything. The directory has 2592 ".pf" files.

The perl I use is​:

% /usr/local/bin/perl -v

This is perl, version 5.004_04 built for sun4-solaris

Copyright 1987-1997, Larry Wall

Perl may be copied only under the terms of either the Artistic License or the
GNU General Public License, which may be found in the Perl 5.0 source kit.

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From [Unknown Contact. See original ticket]

On Tue, 14 Dec 1999, Yen-Hung Chen wrote​:

The simple globbing command fails without giving any
warning or error, when the command returns a list which is too large.

Thanks for mentioning it. It's a known bug - but it's a bug in csh, rather
than perl. (Or, maybe the bug is that Perl uses csh. :-)

If you have or can obtain tcsh, you should be able to recompile perl to
use that instead of csh, so you can avoid this bug.

In any case, it's (scheduled to be) fixed in the upcoming version 5.6 of
perl, which won't use csh.

Thanks for the bug report!

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