Re: bash segfaults on simple function

[Scott McDermott]

Chet Ramey on Tue 29/07 13:54 -0400:
> >          $ type gg
> >         + type gg
> >         gg is a function
> >         gg ()
> >         {
> >             local search;
> >             local param;
> >             while true; do
> >                 param=`echo "$1" | sed 's, ,%20,g'`;
> >                 search="$search%22$param%22";
> >                 shift;
> >             done;
> >             links 
> > "http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=ISO=8859-1&q=$search";
> >         }
> >
> >          $ gg
> 
> You've written a dandy infinite loop there.  Eventually
> you're going to run out of some resource, and the shell
> will probably crash.

I know, but the shell should not segfault on an allocation
failure, which appears to be what it's doing.