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Re: segfault on stack blowup with ridiculous && chains


From: Chet Ramey
Subject: Re: segfault on stack blowup with ridiculous && chains
Date: Wed, 18 May 2016 11:04:42 -0400
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On 5/18/16 10:02 AM, Sarah Brofeldt wrote:
> I'm not sure whether this is actually acceptable behaviour, but a
> ridiculously long && chain blows up bash:

Bash will obediently attempt to run what you tell it to until it runs
out of resources.

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