While stranded on information super highway Jurjen Oskam wrote:
> On 2006-11-10, Hemant Shah <shah@typhoon.xnet.com> wrote:
>
>> Is there a way to find out if the process is in an infinite loop?
>
> For a random process, no, there's no way to find out.
>
> For a particular process (of which you have the source code), there
> might be a way: check the code for possible infinite loops. Note
> that there are loops which may be infinite, but there's no way to
> tell for sure.

I have the source code, and the problem occurs when programmer
makes change to the application and runs it. The programmer may not monitor
the program so as sys admin I want to be able to catch it before it affects
other users.

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