I am running Ubuntu 14.04 (64 bit). When I first found out about the command xterm
, I tried the command xterm xterm
, and it started infinitely opening new xterm windows.
ctrl + C
stops it immediately and closes all windows.
But I wanted to see how far it goes and let it run as long as it can. It ate up almost all the RAM and eventually got closed (I think by the system itself).
So just out of curiosity, why/how does this happen?
SHELL
environment variable to programs found in/etc/shells
(prompted by patch/report by Al Poole)". (The answers explain what's with theSHELL
environment variable).