On 5/22/2010 12:38 AM, David Restall - System Administrator wrote: > Hi, > > >> Marc Perkel wrote: >> >>> Been doing some recursion. I'll probably figure a way around this with a >>> loop counter. However, it might be nice to add a few features to Exim to >>> deal with recursion. Just like to throw out some ideas. >>> >>> The limit it 20. Maybe it would be nice to make it settable? >>> >>> Is there a recursion loop counter that I can read? If not - maybe there >>> should be? >>> >>> Thoughts? >>> >>> >> Thought? >> >> grep the source code... >> > ROTFL. > > I'd also suggest that if you're playing with recursion, you shouldn't > need a loop counter. With recursion you should have a well defined > problem so that you know it won't run out of resources and you should > build checks into your algorithm so that it will throw an exception if > it's passed out of band data. > > TTFN >
Well, the loop counter or rather an ACL depth counter would be part of the check if it were there. -- ## List details at http://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://wiki.exim.org/
