> 
> I seem to remember seeing you asking about this before.  Does it still
> coredump if you issue an "unlimit stacksize" command first?  I'm
> assuming you use csh; under sh the equivalent command is "ulimit -s
> unlimited".

Yes, my mistake.  I thought I had done an "unlimit stacksize" .. I hadn't.
However, limit stacksize 1024 causes IOT traps (atleast with 'ls').  Is
that normal ?

Cheers
Tim.

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