Re: Recursively calling a bash script goes undetected and eats all system memory

[Greg Wooledge]

On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 03:23:46PM +0100, Diggory Hardy wrote:
> What if bash were only to allow scripts to call themselves with exec?

You can't prevent programmers from writing horrible code.  At some point,
it isn't worth the effort even to try.