ulimit stack size and python threads

["Martin v. Löwis"]

> Always crashing because I asked the OS to please not allow a process
> to grow too big is what I call overloading the meaning of ulimit -s.

Please trust that there is no explicit code in the Python interpreter
that tests whether the stack size is 4GB, and then produces an explicit
crash.

> It's quite surprising. Not to mention the poor error message.

AFAICT, you didn't even *report* yet what the error message is,
so I don't know whether it is poor.

Regards,
Martin