Hi! Am Mon, May 17, 2004 at 10:23:56PM +0200, Oliver@xxxxxxxxxx schrieb: > i played around with ActiveState's ActivePerl for Win32, and crashed > Perl.exe with the following command: > > perl -e "$a="A" x 256; system($a)" > > I wonder if this bug isnt known?!? Because system() is a very common > command.... > Can anybody reproduce this? I can confirm this for Perl v5.8.0 built for MSWin32-x86-multi-thread (Binary build 805 provided by ActiveState Corp.) on W2K. My first thought was that the nested double-quotes maybe the reason, but even perl -e "$a='A' x 256; system($a)" crashes. perl -e "system('A'x256)" chrashes also btw. Kind regards, Axel Beckert -- ------------------------------------------------------------- Axel Beckert ecos electronic communication services gmbh it security solutions * web applications with apache and perl Mail: Tulpenstrasse 5 D-55276 Dienheim near Mainz E-Mail: beckert@xxxxxxx Voice: +49 6133 939-220 WWW: http://www.ecos.de/ Fax: +49 6133 939-333 -------------------------------------------------------------