Re: bash 3.2.39 -- race condition

2009-11-29 Thread Douglas Moyes
Chet Ramey wrote: Douglas Moyes wrote: I nearly brought down a server today. # alias d="perl-script " # d() { # perl-script $1 |grep something|cut -d ' ' -f 3 # } # d something . . CRASH turns out bash went into a loop calling d over and over agai

bash 3.2.39 -- race condition

2009-11-26 Thread Douglas Moyes
I nearly brought down a server today. # alias d="perl-script " # d() { # perl-script $1 |grep something|cut -d ' ' -f 3 # } # d something . . CRASH turns out bash went into a loop calling d over and over again, which resulted in thousands of grep, bash, and -d processes being