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From: Brian T.Schellenberger <bts@babbleon.org>
To: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org>, The Almonds <cjalmond@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: c-shell script doing file copies runnign out of processes
Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2001 16:33:44 -0400
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On Saturday 25 August 2001 15:17, Mike Meyer wrote:
> The Almonds <cjalmond@yahoo.com> types:
> > I created a simple c shell script that creates files,
> > copies files, cksum files, and then deletes files.  I
> > then just call the c-shell script again in the
> > original c shell script.
> >
> > How do I run this script so that I do not get Kernel
> > out of processes errors which stop the script from
> > running.
>
> Well, the obvious fix is to source the script instead of running it,
> though that might not work. You could exec the tcsh that runs it. The
> best solution is probably to wrap the script in a loop of some kind
> that ends where you invoke it again. That will also let you add a
> termination condition, which is recommended.

I've been helping Mr. Almond off-line; he was trying to do tail recursion to 
to an infinite loop, so running out of processes would hardly surprising.

I think I've got him fixed up.

>
> 	<mike
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