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Paul Jakma <paul@clubi.ie> wrote:
>
> Fair enough but have a look at the other fault from that bug though:
> 
>  	https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/attachment.cgi?id=99855&action=view 
> 
>  That one did not recurse for some reason.

OK.

So we're 50 to 60 levels deep in function calls there and simply ran out
of 4k stack.

Based on this and upon the few other feedbackings I've had on this issue it
seems that the 4k stack experiment will come back saying "no".

Thanks.