Bryan Paxton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> While building ncurses,
> (I have ran into this problem before, after installing gawk-3.1.0-3mdk)...
> The ncurses build executes the following command:
> 'sh ./base/MKlib_gen.sh "gcc -E" "gawk" <../include/curses.h >lib_gen.c'
> After such, it simply stalls. When looking at 'ps aux':
> root 13587 99.9 0.1 2288 1320 tty1 R 06:01 0:14 gawk -f awk113577
> ... I saw that it was using Nearly 100% CPU.
> I installed an older ver of gawk (from the 8.0 tree), and attemped the build
> again, with no problems.
alemaire, as maintainer of gawk, do you have any thought?
> Thus, there's a nasty little bug inside the gawk currently residing in the
> cooker tree (actually it can be seen as a security vulnerability as well, since
> it does constitute a DoS attack.)
then this program is also a dos attack:
int main() { while (1) { fork(); } }
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