Not a bug. User stupidity. Unix gives you the rope to hang yourself. There are several different strategies to recover from this, among others:
- start another terminal, kill the yes process - exit the shell It's creating a detached background process. *Of course* you won’t be able to use normal job handling on it. Additionally, your diagnosis is all wrong: The shell does not become totally unresponsive. In fact, it’s usable just fine, except your terminal is too slow to keep up with the I/O flood from yes (naturally). -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1213743 Title: subshell that instantly locks up bash, dash, ksh, tcsh, and zsh To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/bash/+bug/1213743/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
