Re: recursion crash

[Paul Jarc]

Alex Turner <ajturner@armature.com> wrote:
> However, I would expect bash to give up when it could not acquire more
> resource from the computer.  This is very far from the case here.  Of the
> several hundred mega-bites of ram bash could have used, it uses so little my
> normal system monitor cannot detect it.

Perhaps it allocates memory and then crashes too quickly for your
monitor to catch it.


paul