Re: Stretch - bash crash when reach ulimit file size

2018-01-26 Thread Felipe Salvador
On Fri, Jan 26, 2018 at 11:05:09AM -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote: > Yes, it's a bug in his script. Not in bash. > > Resource limits are quite low-level; they are implemented as kernel > system calls (see setrlimit(2)). Processes which violate a resource > limit are signalled by the kernel. > > In

Re: Stretch - bash crash when reach ulimit file size

2018-01-26 Thread Peter Hillier-Brook
On 26/01/18 16:05, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Fri, Jan 26, 2018 at 03:45:22PM +, Peter Hillier-Brook wrote: >> On 26/01/18 10:47, Felipe Salvador wrote: >>> $ while true; do echo a>>a; done >>> >>> makes bash crash when file size is reached > >> A crash is always a bug. I suggest that you r

Re: Stretch - bash crash when reach ulimit file size

2018-01-26 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Fri, Jan 26, 2018 at 03:45:22PM +, Peter Hillier-Brook wrote: > On 26/01/18 10:47, Felipe Salvador wrote: > > $ while true; do echo a>>a; done > > > > makes bash crash when file size is reached > A crash is always a bug. I suggest that you report it as such - if not > already reported.

Re: Stretch - bash crash when reach ulimit file size

2018-01-26 Thread Peter Hillier-Brook
On 26/01/18 10:47, Felipe Salvador wrote: > Hi list, > setting > > ulimit -f 1024 > > and running (for example) > > $ while true; do echo a>>a; done > > makes bash crash when file size is reached > > Warning: Program '/bin/bash' crashed. > > $ du a > 1024 /home/fe

Stretch - bash crash when reach ulimit file size

2018-01-26 Thread Felipe Salvador
Hi list, setting ulimit -f 1024 and running (for example) $ while true; do echo a>>a; done makes bash crash when file size is reached Warning: Program '/bin/bash' crashed. $ du a 1024/home/felipe/a I would expect an error or something else (exit?) Is it a b