On 4/19/19 4:21 AM, Ole Tange wrote:
> > Reading https://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/standards.html#Semantics > > """Avoid arbitrary limits on the length or number of any data > structure, including file names, lines, files, and symbols, by > allocating all data structures dynamically.""" > > You could argue that Bash being a GNU tool, it should do like Perl: > Run out of memory before failing. You've obviously overlooked the FUNCNAME variable and its effects, but I am curious about this point. Why do you think bash would exceed some kind of memory resource limit before it exceeds a stack size limit? Or is it supposed to use an out-of-memory message as a generic default? -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU c...@case.edu http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/
