> -----Urspr|ngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Im Auftrag von bofh
> Gesendet: Dienstag, 28. Oktober 2008 16:13
> An: OpenBSD general usage list
> Betreff: Re: "J.C. Roberts" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> saiz >
> OpenBSD. --We won't miss you.
>
>
> On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 9:55 AM, Kevin Wilcox
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > 2008/10/28 Owain Ainsworth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> >> On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 05:37:24AM -0700, Neko wrote:
> >
> >>> git a life
> >
> >> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$git clone a://life
> >> Initialized empty Git repository in /home/oga/life/.git/
> >> fatal: I don't handle protocol 'a'
> >
> > Didn't anyone ever tell you not to run arbitrary commands
> you read on
> > a mailing list? <grin>
>
> I dunno. I once typed in :(){ :|:& };: that I read on a
> mailing list into my bash shell but it did nothing to my
> openbsd box. Nor my osx box. Linux boxes otoh....
>
>
I tried on linux ( rhel5 ), where it generated lots of
"-bash: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable"
messages.
After running it once, a single colon on the commandline gave the same effect,
which was the clue to what happened.
On linux bash
:(){ :|:& };:
defines a function calling itself recursively in the background
: ()
{
: | : &
}
The last colon then calls this function.
I'm not a shell expert. Is this behaviour expected? I found, that I can define
function '+', '-', '/', '?' etc. .
