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should es have a recursion depth limit?

To: rsalz@osf.org
Subject: should es have a recursion depth limit?
From: mycroft@gnu.ai.mit.edu
Date: Wed, 16 Jun 1993 14:04:25 -0400
Cc: haahr@mv.us.adobe.com, peter@robots.ox.ac.uk, es@hawkwind.utcs.toronto.edu
In-reply-to: rsalz@osf.org's message of Wed, 16 Jun 1993 14:00:10 -0400 <9306161800.AA06680@earth.osf.org>

   Thank god you did not.  Catching SIGSEGV and attempting corrective
   action is among the worst kinds of hubris that one can attempt.

Eh?  You don't like the original Bourne shell's assumption of `got a
SEGV; must need more memory, so let's sbrk() some more'?

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- Re: should es have a recursion depth limit?
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