On 10/6/17 6:58 PM, ANDERSON, CRAIG wrote:

> Repeat-By:
>         Running the following script:
> 
> #!/bin/bash
> 
> exec >& >(while read line; do echo "$line"; done)
> 
> trap 'echo sigpipe' SIGPIPE
> trap 'echo sigint' SIGINT
> 
> echo 'Sleeping 60 seconds, press Ctrl+C to segfault!'
> sleep 60

You have created a situation where you will get SIGPIPE over and over
again, running the SIGPIPE trap handler (each invocation of which generates
a SIGPIPE because the pipe to the process substitution is broken), until
the shell runs out of stack space.

-- 
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                 ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates
Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU    c...@case.edu    http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/

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