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This would cause an eventual exhaustion of process table entry / pid and/or addressable memory as the previous shell is left in the background.
by acveilleux 11y ago
This would cause an eventual exhaustion of process table entry / pid and/or addressable memory as the previous shell is left in the background.
- cperciva 11y agoThere's nothing being left in the background. It's one process which is calling exec repeatedly; no forking going on.