Re: [9fans] protection against resource exhaustion

["Bence Fábián" <begnoc@gmail.com>]

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>there must be a bug in rc.

Or maybe it does tail call elimination :)


2015-01-25 10:04 GMT+01:00 arisawa <arisawa@ar.aichi-u.ac.jp>:

> thank you, mischief.
>
> considering after I have posted previous mail,
> I have come to think that the script below should fail with error and stop
> execution.
>
> maia% cat foo
> #!/bin/rc
> ./foo
> maia%
>
> current rc does not stop execution.
> probably not due to protection problem by kernel.
> there must be a bug in rc.
>
> Kenji Arisawa
>
> > 2015/01/25 15:16、arisawa <arisawa@ar.aichi-u.ac.JP> のメール：
> >
> >
> > Hello 9fans
> >
> > my mac has a protection below:
> > -bash$ cat foo
> > #!/bin/sh
> > ./foo
> > -bash$ ./foo
> > ./foo: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable
> > -bash$
> >
> > on the other hand, Plan 9 does not.
> > kernel is protected against such programs, however they are not killed.
> > therefore no new process can be created.
> >
> > does anyone have idea to fix the problem?
> >
> > Kenji Arisawa
> >
> >
>
>
>

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