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From: rjd@tiger.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att
Subject: Re: infinite regress
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Date: Thu, 22-Oct-87 11:35:00 EST
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Posted: Thu Oct 22 11:35:00 1987
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> > > 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"
> 

  Sounds like you have already escaped from it then....  So what's the problem?

Randy