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Re: Memory leak in Solaris 2.7 kernel?


From: Blue Boar <BlueBoar () THIEVCO COM>
Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2001 09:24:56 -0800

Doc Savage wrote:

Please feel free to correct me if I'm wrong here, but this is just a shell
expansion that gets a little carried away.

ls ../* expands to parent directory, all files
ls ../*/../* expands to parent directory, all files, parent directory, all
files....nice little loop if the parent directory has a child (whihc it
obviously does since we're in one).


It is by all indications a memory exhaustion attack.  I'm going to kill
off this thread unless someone finds something more pertinant than
the fact that root can use lots of ram.

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