Re: Can't source itself?

[Chet Ramey]

> I posted the "Possible source bug?" a few weeks ago, but no one responded. 
> Is it expected behaviour to segfault when a script tries to source itself 
> in? As in this script, named foo.sh:
> 
> #!/bin/bash
> . ./foo.sh 
> 
> This will segfault upon execution. Infinite recursion should be more 
> reasonable, or preferably that it recognices itself and returns an error 
> message.

It does recurse infinitely.  Eventually, you exceed your resource limit
on stack size and segfault.

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