<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Casey,<div><br></div><div>Just realized that I missed your questions here...</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, May 5, 2019 at 11:33 PM Casey Ransberger via Cuis-dev <<a href="mailto:cuis-dev@lists.cuis.st">cuis-dev@lists.cuis.st</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Yikes! I don’t know if we can detect simlinks either, and I worry it might vary based on the OS. A max depth check could maybe work... do you suggest a global max depth for this purpose, and what do you think it should be if so? Seems a need for something sufficiently large as to not break people’s programs, and small enough not to bring down the balloon, so to speak.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Yep, symlinks would probably be complicated esp with cross platform issues (Windows does things differently and OS X has directory hard links to contend with as well) So if we go with a depth check: 640k should be enough for anyone, right? Just kidding. I dunno... probably something in the range of 20<X<50 (path components, not characters) would do the trick. And if we gave a meaningful error message, people could find the limit and up it if they needed to.</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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Out of curiosity, while this is occurring, can you do CMD-period* to stop the disaster as it happens? If the VM locks up hard, that seems pretty ouchy. <br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I can break into it so it's not an immediately fatal error but it does freeze the UI and chew up the memory pretty fast until you do, so you don't have long until the system runs out of RAM. (it chews up >12GB in under a minute on my system... what I had free at the time this happened)</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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—Casey<br>
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