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authorGravatar Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net>2013-09-19 13:31:18 -0400
committerGravatar Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net>2013-09-19 13:33:00 -0400
commitfec663ac94161f9193ca1c65d9afe39eed0c387a (patch)
tree3d37f6e83d19d83ae348fb8c26d6d8fa78333821 /doc/bugs
parent4cbdd954447f04ac0b0fb79bd65ef83fa420c859 (diff)
guard against runshell loop
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@@ -33,3 +33,8 @@ Log from the web GUI:
# End of transcript or log.
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+
+> [[done]]; I have added a guard to runshell to detect when it has
+> started to loop. Although I don't understand how a system could be
+> misconfigured to let that happen, without going far out of your way to
+> mess it up, it's a failure mode that's worth guarding against. --[[Joey]]