Fork bomb

[Enrico Weigelt]

* Knut-Håvard Aksnes <kna at tirsdagsklubben.nu> schrieb:

Hi

> Version 0.21 sometimes forces me to reboot my computer due to a fork 
> bomb involving sed!
> Necessary but probably not complete conditions for the bug to appear are:
> 
>   1. gnome-config isn't available in the path.
>   2. pkg-config is called via path lookup not using full path.

3. gnome-config calls pkg-config ? (which would make sense).

Actually, we should get rid of (glib|gtk|gnome)-config at all.
Instead write an script which scans for those old packages
not yet providing an proper .pc file and create one. (or even
better: fix it at the source).


cu
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