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From: anthony malizzio <zchicago@hotmail.com>
To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org
Subject: a program loops when used with &&
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>Number:         30013
>Category:       i386
>Synopsis:       a program loops when used with &&
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          closed
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:  
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Thu Aug 23 17:20:01 PDT 2001
>Closed-Date:    Sat Jan 5 20:03:32 PST 2002
>Last-Modified:  Sat Jan 05 20:03:43 PST 2002
>Originator:     anthony malizzio
>Release:        4.3
>Organization:
>Environment:
FreeBSD zbox.z 4.3-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.3-RELEASE #0: Sun Aug 19 18:58:09 CDT 2001     zchicago@zbox.z:/usr/src/sys/compile/ZKERN  i386

>Description:
when you run a program from a shell with the && operator and a righthand with an ascii escape char, the program re-executes up to 16 times after prior closes.
>How-To-Repeat:
asdf$ any_executable && `^x`  # where x is any character


## output
Fork nesting > 16; maybe `...` loop.
any_executable: Command not found.
any_executable: Command not found.
any_executable: Command not found.
any_executable: Command not found.
any_executable: Command not found.
any_executable: Command not found.
any_executable: Command not found.
any_executable: Command not found.
any_executable: Command not found.
any_executable: Command not found.
any_executable: Command not found.
any_executable: Command not found.
any_executable: Command not found.
any_executable: Command not found.
any_executable: Command not found.





>Fix:
?
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
State-Changed-From-To: open->feedback 
State-Changed-By: kris 
State-Changed-When: Sat Aug 25 14:32:31 PDT 2001 
State-Changed-Why:  
More information requested 

http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=30013 

From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To: anthony malizzio <zchicago@hotmail.com>
Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: i386/30013: a program loops when used with &&
Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2001 14:32:15 -0700

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 On Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 05:14:17PM -0700, anthony malizzio wrote:
 
 > when you run a program from a shell with the && operator and a righthand with an ascii escape char, the program re-executes up to 16 times after prior closes.
 > >How-To-Repeat:
 > asdf$ any_executable && `^x`  # where x is any character
 
 Which shell?  I don't see this in tcsh.
 
 Kris
 
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State-Changed-From-To: feedback->closed 
State-Changed-By: kris 
State-Changed-When: Sat Jan 5 20:03:32 PST 2002 
State-Changed-Why:  
Feedback timeout 

http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=30013 
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