Slowing Linux to a crawl

[D. Hugh Redelmeier]

| From: D. Hugh Redelmeier <hugh-pmF8o41NoarQT0dZR+AlfA at public.gmane.org>

| It appears as if BASH uses 64-bit evaluation, so there appears to be
| no immediate danger.

I just booted another old box (see other threads).  It has RHL 7.0 with
BASH 2.04.11.  This BASH uses 32-bit evaluation.  With no reporting of
overflow (conforming to the manual, but I think that this is
unfortunate).
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