Re: 5.3 segfault?

[Michael Werger <mwerger(at)astro.estec.esa.nl>]

"Robert S. Mallozzi" wrote:
> 
> In article <880no5$asq$1@news.ox.ac.uk>,
>         Alan Iwi <iwi@atm.ox.ac.uk> writes:
> > Sorry, my previous message referred to version 5.3; the "5.0.3" in the
> > subject line was a typo.  Can anyone reproduce this following error?
> >
> >> IDL> spawn,'echo 1',unit=unit1
> >> IDL> spawn,'echo 2',unit=unit2
> >> IDL> spawn,'echo 3',unit=unit3
> >> IDL> readf,unit3,a
> >> Segmentation fault
> 
>     IDL> PRINT, !VERSION
>     { x86 linux unix 5.3 Nov 11 1999}
>     IDL>  SPAWN, 'echo "test"'
>     test
>     IDL> SPAWN, 'echo "test"', UNIT = unit
>     IDL> a = ''
>     IDL> READF, unit, a
>     Segmentation fault (core dumped)
> 


I cannot confirm Alans error (which was for some Solaris version),
however I can confirm Roberts problem for Solaris 2.7!

IDL> print,!version
{ sparc sunos unix 5.3 Nov 11 1999}
IDL> spawn,'echo 1',unit=unit1
IDL> spawn,'echo 2',unit=unit2
IDL> spawn,'echo 3',unit=unit3
IDL> readf,unit3,a
IDL> SPAWN, 'echo "test"'   
test
IDL> SPAWN, 'echo "test"', UNIT = unit
IDL> a = ''
IDL> READF, unit, a
Segmentation fault (core dumped)

Obviously it is even more complicated?

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