On Fri, Sep 11, 2015 at 3:52 PM, Chet Ramey <chet.ra...@case.edu> wrote: > On 9/11/15 2:19 AM, Konstantin Khlebnikov wrote: >> $ ./bash -c ":(){ : $@$@;};: :" >> Segmentation fault > > This is not a memory allocation problem. You have defined an infinitely > recursive function that, when executed, eventually exceeds your stack size > resource limit. When that happens, the kernel sends a SIGSEGV.
Yep. But this not happens if command runs in interactive mode. Bash uses default stack (with MAP_GROWSDOWN) in interactive mode and fixed size stack for "-c" ? > > -- > ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer > ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates > Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU c...@case.edu http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/