> > On Sun, 12 Mar 2000, Joe K. wrote:
> >
> > > Hello:
> > >
> > > I have written an evil function that calls itself recursively.
>
> I can take this to mean, "My function is evil," not
> "recursion is evil", right? Since recursion is
> one of the most beautiful things in the world,
> when done properly...
Infinite recursion without a way out is evil.
Next time remind me to write a way out.
On further reflection, what I really needed to know is this:
is there a way to limit the amount of memory that a single
(possibly misbehaved) program is allowed to gobble up?
I know about disk quotas, is there something similar for memory?
Thanks,
Irv
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