>>>>> "Irv" == Irv Mullins ">irv@ellijay.com> writes:
Irv> Infinite recursion without a way out is evil. Next time
Irv> remind me to write a way out. On further reflection, what I
Irv> really needed to know is this: is there a way to limit the
Irv> amount of memory that a single (possibly misbehaved) program
Irv> is allowed to gobble up? I know about disk quotas, is there
Irv> something similar for memory?
Check your shell's manual page for its `ulimit' command
syntax, or the manual pages for getrlimit and setrlimit for the
underlying system calls.
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