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Re: Reproducible SIGSEGV in bash 4.2 caused by alias.


From: Andreas Schwab
Subject: Re: Reproducible SIGSEGV in bash 4.2 caused by alias.
Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2013 11:38:47 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux)

"Oliver J. Morais" <oliver.morais@gmail.com> writes:

> Playing around with aliases, I stumbled over the following:
> $ alias alias="eval alias"
> $ alias foo=bar

You have created an infinite recursion, same as f() { f; }; f.

Andreas.

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