Re: [BUG] Bash segfaults on an infinitely recursive funcion

[Chet Ramey]

On 9/24/17 9:25 AM, Shlomi Fish wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> With bash git master on Mageia v7 x86-64, bash on Debian Stable and other
> reported sytems:
> 
> shlomif@telaviv1:~$ /home/shlomif/apps/bash/bin/bash -c 'run() { run; } ; run'
> Segmentation fault (core dumped)
> shlomif@telaviv1:~$ 
> 
> note that this is not a fork bomb as no processes are spawned, and it is also
> not an out-of-memory problem. I expect bash to fail on this, but it ought not
> to segfault.

This has come up many times in the past.

You wrote a recursive function that eventually exceeds your shell's
stack space allocation, and the kernel sends it a SIGSEGV.

If you want to constrain function recursion, look at the FUNCNEST
shell variable.

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