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Re: Quick way to lock up your shell

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From: Peter Stephenson <pws@xxxxxxx>
To: Bart Schaefer <schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Quick way to lock up your shell
Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2008 17:52:42 +0000
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Bart Schaefer wrote:
> schaefer<501> FOO==(cat)
> 
> The shell is now hung forever waiting for a "cat" that will never exit,

Cats are like that.  The think to do is to shut the door in its face;
then it will immediately decide it wants to leave after all and start
scratching at the door.

Hope this helps.

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Peter Stephenson <pws@xxxxxxx>                  Software Engineer
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