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• Crashes W2K! (Score:2, Informative)

  by jordan (120)

  I just crashed my own computer!

  I'm using cygwin Perl and interestingly, it doesn't crash it when run under cygwin bash, but does when run under the old command.com/MSDOS prompt. Cygwin bash must not use the offending module for output, or does something else that prevents the problem.

  One correction. I think you meant:
  
perl -e 'while(1){print "\b\t\t\t\t\t\t"}'

  'for(1)' doesn't loop, which seems to be required.
  The above actually doesn't work either under command.com because of a quoting problem, but:
  
  • Re:Crashes W2K! (Score:1)

    by jjohn (22)

    'for(1)' doesn't loop, which seems to be required. The above actually doesn't work either under command.com because of a quoting problem, but:

    stot's it sapricely! Er, that's it precisely! I'll make the change now.
  • Re:Crashes W2K! (Score:1)

    by bart (450)

    I think you meant:
    
    perl -e 'while(1){print "\b\t\t\t\t\t\t"}'
    
    'for(1)' doesn't loop, which seems to be required.
    

    
    

    Indeed, 'for(1)' goes through the loop only once. But 'for(;;)' loops forever.