From doug.cae.wisc.edu!umn.edu!spool.mu.edu!uunet!cis.ohio-state.edu!news.sei.cmu.edu!fs7.ece.cmu.edu!crabapple.srv.cs.cmu.edu!andrew.cmu.edu!tm8t+ Fri Sep 25 14:16:19 1992 Article: 1778 of alt.hackers Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Path: doug.cae.wisc.edu!umn.edu!spool.mu.edu!uunet!cis.ohio-state.edu!news.sei.cmu.edu!fs7.ece.cmu.edu!crabapple.srv.cs.cmu.edu!andrew.cmu.edu!tm8t+ Newsgroups: alt.hackers Message-ID: Date: Thu, 24 Sep 1992 22:13:52 -0400 From: Tod McQuillin Subject: Finally a use for yes Approved: why do people get so nervous about this? Lines: 18 The following command was observed to crash a VAXStation 3100 (Ultrix 4.1) in less than two minutes: yes 'yes &' | sh -i An Adjacent NeXT machine survived after the terminal window containing the session died (too much output maybe?), taking all its child processes with it. What happens on your machine? As a side note, has anyone ever found an interesting, useful way to take advantage of /usr/ucb/yes? The ostensible use is for piping into programs like fsck, but I ask you, do you know anyone at all who's actually done that? -- Tod