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Re: BUG: echo call function


From: Greg Wooledge
Subject: Re: BUG: echo call function
Date: Wed, 4 Mar 2015 09:57:06 -0500
User-agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i

On Wed, Mar 04, 2015 at 11:42:19AM -0300, x Slack x Ruan wrote:
> I understand the use of ''.
>  But in this case could not be a interrupt call?
>  So it is no loop, the problem persists even if there is space between the ``.

Spaces in the command are not relevant.  You are calling yourself
recursively, in a subshell (which requires a fork), with no limit.
Eventually you will have launched so many processes that the system
crashes (or does other bad things), unless you hit a configured resource
limit first.

What you have written is a thing we call a "fork bomb".  Don't do it.



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