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in reply to Re: How to kill perl?
in thread How to kill perl?

I could claim that gnu malloc(3) was able to prevent the segfault. Here it is choosing a graceful abort to the crash.
$ export MALLOC_CHECK_=2 $ perl -e 'print sort{*a=$b,0} <>' a b Aborted