Unix error handling

[merriman at ccavax.camb.com]

In article <1990Sep2.050854.12008 at nixtdc.uucp>, 
	doug at nixtdc.uucp (Doug Moen) writes:

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> Here's the obligatory new idea:
> I don't like the fact that Unix kills a process if it blows the stack
> due to an infinite recursive loop.  The problem could be fixed with
> the introduction of an exception handling mechanism that the kernel
> knows about.  If the stack overflows, then the kernel raises an exception
> within the offending process.  The exception unwinds the stack (thereby
> recovering stack space) until a stack frame containing an exception
> handler is found.  If no exception handler is active, then (and only then)
> is the process killed.
> -- 

Sounds a lot like VMS exception handlers