On Mon, 22 Apr 2024, Chet Ramey wrote:
You might be surprised. The OP was sending thousands of calculations to
(I think) GNU bc, which had some resource consumption issue that
resulted in it eventually hanging, unresponsive. The kill was the
solution there. I imagine there are similar scenarios with other tools.
Ok, you got me! I take it back.
I hadn't considered bc operations being cpu/memory intensive. But that
possibility makes sense - given that it's arbitrary precision I guess you
can ask for a number to the billionth power and never see the end of it :)
Carl
