Tim Waugh wrote:
> What is the intended behaviour for this sort of thing?:
Bash does not attempt to trap infinite recursion, so whatever your system
does with it is what will happen.
Chet
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According to Tim Waugh on 1/16/2007 5:45 AM:
> What is the intended behaviour for this sort of thing?:
Infinite recursion, within the limits of your stack.
>
> $ cat <<"EOF" >trouble
> hello ()
> {
> pwd
> }
> alias pwd="hello"
> EOF
> The beh
What is the intended behaviour for this sort of thing?:
$ cat <<"EOF" >trouble
hello ()
{
pwd
}
alias pwd="hello"
EOF
$ source trouble
$ source trouble
$ pwd
The behaviour I've observed with bash-3.2 and several earlier releases
is that bash consumes all available memory and then crashes.
Ti
