[Python-Dev] Preventing recursion core dumps (original) (raw)

Just van Rossum just@letterror.com
Fri, 11 Aug 2000 16:14:40 +0100

> Agreement on 5000?

No, the getattr example still dumps core for me. With 4000 it is fine, but this indicates that this is totally the wrong approach: I can change the available stack size with ulimit -s and cause a core dump anyway. Or there could be a loger path through the C code where more C stack is used per recursion. We could set the maximum to 1000 and assume a "reasonable" stack size, but that doesn't make me feel comfortable either. It would be good if there was a way to sense the remaining available stack, even if it wasn't portable. Any Linux experts out there?

Gordon, how's that Stackless PEP coming along?

Sorry, I couldn't resist ;-)

Just