Hello, With a simple script such as that below, bash can enter an infinite loop of eating memory until the system is rendered unusable:
#!/bin/bash PATH=~ infinitely-recurse Save this as infinitely-recurse in your home directory and run - and make sure you kill it pretty quick. OK, so an obvious bug when put like this, though it bit me recently (mistakenly using PATH as an ordinary variable and having a script with the same name as a system program). Would it not be simple to add some kind of protection against this — say don't let a script call itself more than 100 times? Thanks, Diggory
