for (;;;)

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will work, though as rthhawk says 
  while(1)

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is maybe a little more conventional.There's no inbuilt limit to the loop either way.
As to why it ends:
  • Some other process/es on the host chews up the cpu?
  • Some other process/es on the host gorges the memory?
  • Your LOG target gets zapped by some other agent?
  • Other?

    • Hard to say.

    Options?

    You could set up the script to run under some process monitor or other. There are quite a few around. For a bit of fun you could write your own (but who monitors the monitor?).

    If you wrap the whole thing in an eval you maybe able to trap the condition that causes the exit and resume the loop.

    See eval documentation.

    In reply to Re: Infinite Loop Question by mrstlee
    in thread Infinite Loop Question by joeymac

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