Re: Aint this a bug or i'm just the one having this problem

["Keith G. Murphy" <keithmur@mindspring.com>]

Robert Waldner wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 27 Oct 2000 13:52:26 +0800, Livia Admin writes:
> >I'm using debian/woody and kernel-2.4-test*.
> >anyone pls try running  "yes `yes`" as any user if it crashes your system.. ca
> >use it crashes mine.
> 
> it doesn´t crash my box, it just eats up the whole a/v memory. sounds
>  like a bug, yes.
> 
And why would that be a bug?  You're telling the system to print a
string that is the result of concatenating another string an infinite
amount of times.

This sort of thing is what ulimit is designed to prevent, AFAIK.