Stack overflows (was: Re: Future of Debian uncertain?)

[Falk Hueffner <falk.hueffner@student.uni-tuebingen.de>]

"Keith G. Murphy" <keithmur@mindspring.com> writes:

> # ulimit -a
> core file size        (blocks, -c) 0
> data seg size         (kbytes, -d) unlimited
> file size             (blocks, -f) unlimited
> max locked memory     (kbytes, -l) unlimited
> max memory size       (kbytes, -m) unlimited
> open files                    (-n) 1024
> pipe size          (512 bytes, -p) 8
> stack size            (kbytes, -s) 8192
> cpu time             (seconds, -t) unlimited
> max user processes            (-u) 1024
> virtual memory        (kbytes, -v) unlimited
> 
> on two different 3.0 systems of mine.  Not that it's ever bitten me,
> far as I know.

It's not that difficult to hit when you do functional style
programming, e. g.  It would already be quite helpful IMHO if one
didn't just get a SEGV, since that usually indicates a program error.
I don't think there are any free signal numbers, though. Maybe one
should send SIGBUS or something?

-- 
	Falk