* Fwd: Good way to kill your workstation using rc(1)
@ 1998-10-08 19:22 smarry
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From real-smarry@vex.net Thu Oct 08 17:33:11 1998
From: Wayne Hayes <wayne@cs.toronto.edu>
Subject: Good way to kill your workstation using rc(1)
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1998 13:27:31 -0400
I just accidentally found a nifty way to run an infinite loop in rc(1).
I was LaTeX'ing up a theorem from my thesis, and typed:
dvix theorem1 &-
(the '-' was an accident). So of course it ran dvix in the background,
then ran '-' with no arguments... and looped. Took me a few tries to
get back to the xterm and hit ^C frantically as my screen filled up with
dvix's...
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