Re: Odd behaviour on Bash 2.04 and 2.05

[yap_noel]

I stand corrected.  IMHO, Linux should be as resilient.  Has anyone cross
posted this on the Linux list?

Noel

In article <OFD4092455.10752B4E-ON85256AB2.007148A3@ny.jpmorgan.com>,
 <yap_noel@jpmorgan.com> wrote:

> Don't do this, it'll bring down any system, not just Linux.

If run as root, possibly.  If run as a normal user on most commercial UNIX
systems, it will not.  Most platforms set limits on resource use by
non-root
users.  The example definitely isn't friendly to the overall system (it
soaks up a bunch of resources), but it won't bring down most commercial
UNIX systems.

Tim
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