Re: memory hog script crashes bash with segfault

2015-09-11 Thread Chet Ramey
On 9/11/15 10:10 AM, Konstantin Khlebnikov wrote: > On Fri, Sep 11, 2015 at 3:52 PM, Chet Ramey wrote: >> On 9/11/15 2:19 AM, Konstantin Khlebnikov wrote: >>> $ ./bash -c ":(){ : $@$@;};: :" >>> Segmentation fault >> >> This is not a memory allocation problem. You have defined an infinitely >> re

Re: memory hog script crashes bash with segfault

2015-09-11 Thread Konstantin Khlebnikov
On Fri, Sep 11, 2015 at 3:52 PM, Chet Ramey wrote: > On 9/11/15 2:19 AM, Konstantin Khlebnikov wrote: >> $ ./bash -c ":(){ : $@$@;};: :" >> Segmentation fault > > This is not a memory allocation problem. You have defined an infinitely > recursive function that, when executed, eventually exceeds y

Re: memory hog script crashes bash with segfault

2015-09-11 Thread Chet Ramey
On 9/11/15 2:19 AM, Konstantin Khlebnikov wrote: > $ ./bash -c ":(){ : $@$@;};: :" > Segmentation fault This is not a memory allocation problem. You have defined an infinitely recursive function that, when executed, eventually exceeds your stack size resource limit. When that happens, the kernel