Re: Nonterminating alias

2016-11-28 Thread Chet Ramey
On 11/27/16 1:45 AM, Dan Douglas wrote: > A simpler one this time. Bash 4.4 only. > > $ bash -c $'alias @="eval {\n}"; eval @' > bash: xrealloc: cannot allocate 18446744071562068464 bytes Yeah, I fixed this totally obsure one, too. -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer

Nonterminating alias

2016-11-27 Thread Dan Douglas
A simpler one this time. Bash 4.4 only. $ bash -c $'alias @="eval {\n}"; eval @' bash: xrealloc: cannot allocate 18446744071562068464 bytes I would guess this is part of the way keywords are supposed to be re-interpolated after alias expansion since 4.4. Maybe not even be a bug depending on how