shell scripts in system commands

[Kenneth Brody]

"Brian K. White" wrote:
[...]
> Now, with that test, I can get to 28 working levels, 29 fails
> you can see a flicker of the error message  "sh: 132587  memory fault"
> then rreport processes continue to nest successfully even though the script
> is failing at that point.
> 
> that is: when I hit enter after the 28th level, I do see a new rreport that
> says testing 29 and enter after that flashes the error where the script
> tried to run, and then the screen says testing 30, and so on.
[...]

*nix systems have a limit to the number of concurrent processes that a
non-root user can run.  I don't know why your shell script gives a memory
fault at that point, but that is most likely the limit that you're hitting.

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