On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 01:48:05PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> > I don't think so. The point is that we _must_ use bash here, not any
> > POSIX shell.
>
> Sorry, but I do not understand. Isn't what you want "any POSIX
> shell with 'ulimit -s 64' supported"?
Sure, that would be fine, but the original patch which started this
thread claimed that bash was required. I had assumed that to be true,
but it seems like it's not:
> $ dash -c 'ulimit -s && ulimit -s 64 && ulimit -s'
> 8192
> 64
If we are just using the same shell we are already running, then why
invoke it by name in the first place? IOW, why not:
run_with_limited_stack () {
(ulimit -s 64 && "$@")
}
-Peff
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