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From: lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca (Larry Phillips)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Find crashes machine
Message-ID: <649@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca>
Date: 22 Jul 89 22:16:41 GMT
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To: van-bc!rnews

In <5376@tekigm2.MEN.TEK.COM>, phils@tekigm2.MEN.TEK.COM (Philip E Staub) writes:
>Just a suggestion, since I haven't tried the latest 'find':
>
>Make sure your stack is set *large*. Programs of this sort are usually
>recursive, and can chew up stack space as quickly as you are willing
>to dole it out.

If it's mine he's speaking of, the 'updatedb' program uses a recursive
algorithm, using the stack for pointers to FileInfoBlocks, but the 'find'
program is not recursive itself.

-larry

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