bash shell parser bug

2006-03-23 Thread laura fairhead
Hello, I just found a bug that affects a number of shells (pressumably the code there is from the same roots) in the parser. The following code; l='eval "$l"' eval "$l" Which sets off an infinite recursion on 'eval', should result in an infinite loop to be terminated by INT (doesnt' work) or

Re: bash shell parser bug

2006-03-20 Thread Stephane Chazelas
On Thu, Mar 16, 2006 at 08:28:28PM -0800, laura fairhead wrote: > > > Hello, Hi Laura, > I just found a bug that affects a number of shells (pressumably the > code there is from the same roots) in the parser. > > The following code; > > l='eval "$l"' > eval "$l" > > Which sets off an infinit

Re: bash shell parser bug

2006-03-19 Thread Chet Ramey
laura fairhead wrote: > I just found a bug that affects a number of shells (pressumably the > code there is from the same roots) in the parser. > > The following code; > > l='eval "$l"' > eval "$l" > > Which sets off an infinite recursion on 'eval', should result in an > infinite loop to be te

bash shell parser bug

2006-03-16 Thread laura fairhead
aced the system calls using 'strace' and it is extending the data area with brk() by 4k a time until finally, pressumaby it just doesn't check the error from brk() not finding anymroe memory. bestwishes laura -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/bash-shell-par