On 23.11.13 Charles Plessy ([email protected]) wrote:

Hi,

> this seems to be the normal behaviour of ‘see’ when there is no
> sensible media type for a file.
> 
> I just tested to open with ‘see’ a file called a.thm on Icedove
> 17.0.9-2, and there was no infinite loop.  Can you still reproduce
> the problem on your side ?
> 
I can still see the problem in my Debian stable. At least now the
program generates screen output, but the fork-bomb is still in place:

hille@drachi:~$ see a.thm
Warning: unknown mime-type for "a.thm" -- using "application/octet-stream"
Warning: unknown mime-type for "a.thm" -- using "application/octet-stream"
Warning: unknown mime-type for "a.thm" -- using "application/octet-stream"
Warning: unknown mime-type for "a.thm" -- using "application/octet-stream"
Warning: unknown mime-type for "a.thm" -- using "application/octet-stream"
Warning: unknown mime-type for "a.thm" -- using "application/octet-stream"
Warning: unknown mime-type for "a.thm" -- using "application/octet-stream"
Warning: unknown mime-type for "a.thm" -- using "application/octet-stream"
Warning: unknown mime-type for "a.thm" -- using "application/octet-stream"
Warning: unknown mime-type for "a.thm" -- using "application/octet-stream"
Warning: unknown mime-type for "a.thm" -- using "application/octet-stream"

ps ax:

 6969 pts/0    S+     0:00 /usr/bin/perl /usr/bin/see a.thm
 6970 pts/0    S+     0:00 /usr/bin/perl /usr/bin/see a.thm
 6971 pts/0    S+     0:00 /usr/bin/perl /usr/bin/see a.thm
 6972 pts/0    S+     0:00 /usr/bin/perl /usr/bin/see a.thm
 6973 pts/0    S+     0:00 /usr/bin/perl /usr/bin/see a.thm
 6974 pts/0    S+     0:00 /usr/bin/perl /usr/bin/see a.thm
 6975 pts/0    S+     0:00 /usr/bin/perl /usr/bin/see a.thm
 6976 pts/0    S+     0:00 /usr/bin/perl /usr/bin/see a.thm
 6977 pts/0    S+     0:00 /usr/bin/perl /usr/bin/see a.thm
 6978 pts/0    S+     0:00 /usr/bin/perl /usr/bin/see a.thm
 6979 pts/0    S+     0:00 /usr/bin/perl /usr/bin/see a.thm
 6980 pts/0    S+     0:00 /usr/bin/perl /usr/bin/see a.thm
 6981 pts/0    S+     0:00 /usr/bin/perl /usr/bin/see a.thm
 6982 pts/0    S+     0:00 /usr/bin/perl /usr/bin/see a.thm
 6983 pts/0    S+     0:00 /usr/bin/perl /usr/bin/see a.thm
 6984 pts/0    S+     0:00 /usr/bin/perl /usr/bin/see a.thm
 6985 pts/0    S+     0:00 /usr/bin/perl /usr/bin/see a.thm
 6986 pts/0    S+     0:00 /usr/bin/perl /usr/bin/see a.thm

pstree:

├─sshd─┬─sshd───sshd───bash───see───see───see───see───see───see───see───se+
│      └─sshd───sshd───bash───pstree

hille@drachi:~$ update-alternatives --list vi
/usr/bin/vim.basic
hille@drachi:~$ dpkg -S vim.basic
vim: /usr/bin/vim.basic

Hilmar
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