On Thursday 13 February 2003 15:26, uk2secat_private-ip.com wrote: > > example: `perl -e 'print "*/*" x 3500'` > <bash crashes> Just out of curiosity I tried it on my slackware 8.1 box nimadeus@hera:~$ uname -a Linux hera 2.4.18 #4 Fri May 31 01:25:31 PDT 2002 i686 unknown nimadeus@hera:~$ bash --version GNU bash, version 2.05a.0(1)-release (i386-slackware-linux-gnu) Copyright 2001 Free Software Foundation, Inc. nimadeus@hera:~$ after running `perl -e 'print "*/*" x 3500'` in bash it crashed too. -- - Joris Vink TerraTrans Security & DNS Admin http://www.terratrans.net
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