Re: memory hog script crashes bash with segfault

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

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

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

memory hog script crashes bash with segfault

$ ./bash -c ":(){ : $@$@;};: :" Segmentation fault $ ./bash --version GNU bash, version 4.3.42(1)-release (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later This is free software; you are free