Re: Occasional 'job table full or recursion limit exceeded'

[Felix Rosencrantz <f_rosencrantz@yahoo.com>]

--- Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com> wrote:
> I'm not really sure what to say, because the message you quoted doesn't
> have anything to do with the thread you're replying to.  (The excerpt
> above refers to the number of background jobs spawned by my "zargs"
> function, not to the value of MAXJOBS in the C code.)
I'm a wee bit red faced... :)

> Part of the problem is that the value of MAXJOBS was established when
> each job table entry represented a real unix process.  Now that we make
> job table entries for internal shell control structures, we need more
> table space.  It still shouldn't need to grow without bound (though I
> believe we have other anti-infinite recursion mechanisms in place now).
I didn't really appreciate that MAXJOBS is sort of taking on the role of a
control structures stack.   In which case, a dynamic solution seems reasonable.

Currently I'm building with MAXJOBS doubled, figuring that should cover it for
me.   Though I suspect most users have prebuilt versions of zsh, and so might
hit this problem.

-FR.

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