Re: [PATCH] Fix overflow in jobs

On 2/7/18 3:30 PM, Chet Ramey wrote: >> Unfortunately, the proposed patch does not fix the case for 32 bit >> architectures. > > That's interesting. It seems to me that the kernel should reject attempts > to set the maximum number of processes larger than 2**(sizeof (pid_t)). I looked at this on

Re: [PATCH] Fix overflow in jobs

On 2/7/18 1:51 PM, Natanael Copa wrote: > Hi, > > On Fri, 8 Dec 2017 08:04:00 -0500 > Chet Ramey wrote: > >> On 12/7/17 5:36 PM, Natanael Copa wrote: >>> This fixes an issue with bash hanging if user process rlimit is too >>> high. >> >> Thanks for the report. >> > > Unfortunately, the propos

Re: [PATCH] Fix overflow in jobs

Hi, On Fri, 8 Dec 2017 08:04:00 -0500 Chet Ramey wrote: > On 12/7/17 5:36 PM, Natanael Copa wrote: > > This fixes an issue with bash hanging if user process rlimit is too > > high. > > Thanks for the report. > Unfortunately, the proposed patch does not fix the case for 32 bit architectures.

Re: [PATCH] Fix overflow in jobs

On 12/7/17 5:36 PM, Natanael Copa wrote: > This fixes an issue with bash hanging if user process rlimit is too > high. Thanks for the report. -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRUc...@c

[PATCH] Fix overflow in jobs

This fixes an issue with bash hanging if user process rlimit is too high. To reproduce: ulimit -u 9223372036854775807 bash -c 'sleep 1 & wait $!' --- jobs.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/jobs.c b/jobs.c index fc966036..d203db27 100644 --- a/jobs.c +++ b/