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From: Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com>
To: Paul <paulsaksela@gmail.com>
Cc: Zsh hackers list <zsh-workers@zsh.org>
Subject: Re: Bug: redirecting to /dev/stdout 3x in a row
Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2022 10:36:27 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAH+w=7ZKULWuTbgBKgEFuLBrugafOBZYOV3mS6J_zaC8PtaQkA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAH+w=7ZvhC0hEpvhpFA0j+Wmc_m-8dVhJ7y5dje93Cd0dOfmNg@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, Jul 13, 2022 at 10:28 AM Bart Schaefer
<schaefer@brasslantern.com> wrote:
>
> Hmm.  It's unclear that this is a bug (as opposed to user error).
>
> There's nothing the shell can do about this, you've effectively
> instructed it to go into an infinite loop.

There may be a knock-on bug here that this can't be interrupted from
the keyboard (probably because the "echo" command itself has already
finished and now it's just the redirected output going round in
circles on its own).


      reply	other threads:[~2022-07-13 17:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-07-13 17:12 Paul
2022-07-13 17:28 ` Bart Schaefer
2022-07-13 17:36   ` Bart Schaefer [this message]

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