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Re:Unix Recovery Legend (1986) by acveilleux on Thursday September 03, 2015 @02:24PM (#10166682)
This would cause an eventual exhaustion of process table entry / pid and/or addressable memory as the previous shell is left in the background.
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Re:Unix Recovery Legend (1986) by cperciva on Thursday September 03, 2015 @02:47PM (#10166800)
There's nothing being left in the background. It's one process which is calling exec repeatedly; no forking going on.
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