I found that the following ditty which in earlier incarnations of my
system just died almost immediately with a Segmentation Fault, will
under current 2.4 Linux kernels under, say, RedHat's (null) beta,
cause the machine to more or less freeze:
tex '\def~{\if~}~'
That's bad. So perhaps one should let TeX automatically set a stack
size limit, roughly what
ulimit -s 1024
or so would do. After all, TeX is known to have potentially unlimited
stack growth, so when the OS has a mechanism for keeping growth
limited, and when unlimited growth is a known cause for trouble...
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David Kastrup Phone: +49-234-32-25570
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