On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 10:25:02AM +0100, Diggory Hardy wrote: > Uh. Then over time it is legitimate to have a script recursively call itself > a few thousand times with each instance still in memory?
No. > The potential to grind the system to a complete halt is pretty serious > though. Perhaps the ideal solution would be to have the kernel intervene > before it starts thrashing memory, but that doesn't seem to happen. Just use exec. Re-exec yourself instead of spawning a new instance of yourself.
