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From: jjd@BBN.COM (James J Dempsey)
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Subject: Runaway bash
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Date: 26 Jul 89 19:20:30 GMT
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I use: Vax 8530, Ultrix 3.0, GCC 1.35, yacc, GNU make 1.35

I have had over a dozen cases where a bash of mine gets into some very
tight infinite loop and eats up gobs of cpu time.  I have tried to get
a core dump, but the only signal they will respond to is SIGKILL, so I
have been unsuccessful.

These runaway bashes must come from shells which are in the process of
exiting or X windows which are closing or something, because I never
notice when they get created.  Currently running interactive shells
don't go into this state.

This wouldn't bother me too much, except we are charged for cpu time
on this host.

Does anyone have any good ideas about how to debug this problem?

Thanks,

		--Jim--