Massive recursion -> SEGV

[Jan Schampera]

Hi folks,


a suggestion about recursive function calls (and not only that, of course).

Do you see a way for Bash to pull the emergency break before it runs out 
of stack here (to provide an error to the user, rather than a crash):

--------------------
f1() {
  f1
}

f1
--------------------

Currently it runs into a SEGV, where the number of recurions depends on 
the stack limit.

On a fast search I found no portable way, but there are ways for 
specific platforms, like getrusage() when stack is reported there.

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