'stack overflow' message for Darwin; host hooks

[Dale Johannesen]

On Thursday, February 6, 2003, at 02:03  PM, Mike Stump wrote:
> On Thursday, February 6, 2003, at 12:54 PM, Geoffrey Keating wrote:
>>> I'm of two minds here.  On the one hand, honoring the user's limits 
>>> is
>>> a good thing; on the other hand, we know that the default stack limit
>>> is too low for us on Darwin and it seems to me that we ought not to
>>> make the user worry about that.
>>
>> It's too low for some highly atypical test cases, but in real 
>> programs the limit is not a problem.

This is not always true; at least 3 users ran into it before we added 
the Apple local call
to setrlimit that Mike refers to below.

> Then you'll want to remove the Apple local code that bumps it up 
> automatically, then turn it loose on the community, and see if people 
> like the result.  I think I know the answer.  I think the answer is, 
> it is just way too low on darwin.

Yes, clearly this is a Darwin-specific problem.  It seems to me having 
the setrlimit call
on Darwin, but not elsewhere, is the right thing.