Re: Segmentation fault after a script runs source on itself

Robert Elz <[email protected]> Tue, 23 Dec 2025 15:02:34 +0700

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    Date:        Tue, 23 Dec 2025 00:42:41 +0000
    From:        "Parker Macdonald (Student)" <[email protected]>
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  |       If you have a script, lets say it's called loop.sh, and it contains the following line:
  |
  | source loop.sh
  |
  |       When you run this script bash will segmentation fault.
  | I'd imagine this is caused by a stack overflow, because when
  | debugging bash there are 35604 stack frames once it crashes.

Infinite recursion will get you like that all the time.   Just don't
do that, and you won't have a problem, the only bug here is in the
script.

kre