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Re: memory hog script crashes bash with segfault

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On Fri, Sep 11, 2015 at 3:52 PM, Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu> wrote:
> On 9/11/15 2:19 AM, Konstantin Khlebnikov wrote:
>> $ ./bash -c ":(){ : $@$@;};: :"
>> Segmentation fault
>
> This is not a memory allocation problem.  You have defined an infinitely
> recursive function that, when executed, eventually exceeds your stack size
> resource limit.  When that happens, the kernel sends a SIGSEGV.

Yep. But this not happens if command runs in interactive mode.
Bash uses default stack (with MAP_GROWSDOWN) in interactive mode
and fixed size stack for "-c" ?

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Re: memory hog script crashes bash with segfault Konstantin Khlebnikov <koct9i@gmail.com> - 2015-09-11 17:10 +0300

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