Search back through the list archives for the last month or so; I think
that Avi Bryant took a first cut at something like this.

Joshua

On Sun, Sep 07, 2003 at 06:00:29PM +0200, Michael van der Gulik wrote:
> Hi all.
> 
> If you make a naive class that calls itself:
> 
> Forkbomb>>forkbomb
> 	^ self forkbomb.
> 
> Squeak 3.5 on Debian linux will eventually crash, leaving a huge stack 
> dump in the terminal.
> 
> Okay; it's really my fault for making such a stupid class, but I'm 
> playing around with proxied objects, message sends etc and it's 
> happening quite often while I'm debugging.
> 
> Is there a way to limit the invocation stack to a sane level of 
> deepness, after which a process/thread (whichever is Squeak terminology) 
> gets suspended and an error thrown?
> 
> Same probably applies to number of processes made by a thread.
> 
> mikevdg.
> 
>