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From: tel@moby.UUCP (Tom Lowe)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att
Subject: Re: infinite regress
Message-ID: <201@Ahab.moby.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 20-Oct-87 09:58:14 EDT
Article-I.D.: Ahab.201
Posted: Tue Oct 20 09:58:14 1987
Date-Received: Thu, 22-Oct-87 00:29:29 EDT
References: <3269@sol.ARPA> <144800004@tiger.UUCP>
Organization: AT&T National Systems Support Center, South Plainfield, NJ
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Summary: i get something different

In article <144800004@tiger.UUCP>, rjd@tiger.UUCP writes:
> 
> > How can one escape from an infinitely recursive ksh function, such as
> > foo () { foo ; }
> > 
>   I guess I am missing something, because every Unix system I know of limits
> a user to a number of process (such as 20).  After the 20th iteration of this
> recursive'ness, you should get an error saying something on the order of
> "cannot fork"....  (since each recursion will spawn a new process).

I get    "ksh: foo: recursive call"






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