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Re: Seg history

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On Tue, Oct 22, 2019, 8:10 AM younes berramdane <younesberramdane1@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hello,
> I have found a seg in the history of bash while I was doing a project for
> my school,
> (Put fc -s at the last command of the history file [~/.sh_history] for
> bash posix or [~/.bash_history] for bash then launch bash and execute fc -s
> again)
>
> Best regards,
> Younes Berramdane.
>

This causes fc -s to re-execute itself in a tight loop repeatedly until a
seg fault occurs.

I don't know whether Bash should catch this but it definitely falls under
"doctor, it hurts when I do this" - IOW, don't do that. Especially since it
takes extra effort to set up the necessary conditions.

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Re: Seg history Dennis Williamson <dennistwilliamson@gmail.com> - 2019-10-22 18:24 -0500

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