Hey Greg,
I wasn't particularly trying to actually generate that large amount of
strings in memory, I wa purposely trying to overflow the integer variable
"nelem"hoping to get Code Execution. This could potentially be a security
risk as shell shock was just more of a denial of service rather than
On Sat, Aug 15, 2015 at 08:53:55PM -0700, Pasha K wrote:
> (gdb) r -c "for x in {1..9223372036854775805}; do echo overflow; done"
Brace expansion requires bash to generate and store ALL of those strings
in memory simultaneously. I seriously doubt any computer on earth has
enough virtual memory to
Quoting is necessary in a few cases:
$ var=foo; declare -A "arr$var=([x]=y)"
bash: warning: arrfoo=([x]=y): quoted compound array assignment deprecated
$ var=foo; declare -A arr$var=([x]=y)
bash: syntax error near unexpected token `('
$ var=foo; declare -A "arr$var"=([x]=y)
bash: syntax error near
