Fork bomb

Knut-Håvard Aksnes kna at tirsdagsklubben.nu
Thu May 29 04:28:38 PDT 2008


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.

I discovered this bug when trying to build ATK in the buildroot 
environment. Adding the following
script as gnome-config in the path makes the problem disappear.

    #! /bin/sh
    exit 1

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