Which OS is this happening on? Several folks have tried this on lots of different flavors of Linux and report no problems.
I would argue that any DoS problems are the purview of the the operating system, not the shell (or user-land libraries). Jeff > we may have to revisit this given enough feedback > but the upshot is that the seemingly good idea of "no limits" is not always a > good idea > proof of concept: try this with bash on a system that you can reboot with a > physical button: > > bash -c 'read line < /dev/zero' _______________________________________________ ast-users mailing list [email protected] https://mailman.research.att.com/mailman/listinfo/ast-users
