What would my computer do if I wrote these programs?

What would happen if I wrote these two programs amd just let them run:

1. A program that just constantly created files in a particular directory without ever ending?

2. If I dumped tons of data into a particular file (text, html, etc) and just let the program run until something happened?

I suspect that the OS would kick in before you did too much, but I didn't know. They are really easy to write, but I was hesitant to test it out on my computer since this is really the only good one I have.

Thanks!

1: Windows has a limit on the number of files in a directory...i forget what it is now but our music collection at work broke that folder till we had a perl script go in and sort thins out into sub folders.

2: You would get a out of room error. Database at work got caught in an endless loop and was spewing error messages to a log file... ended up crashing Oracle cause it couldn't write anymore.

I think this site can answer both your questions:

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Wraithan, I've gotta check out your music collection some time! You had over 65,534 files in one folder! Impressive!

Cool that helps. Thanks guys.

Yeah we have about 150-175 gigs of music on a shared drive at work. Head programmer bought in a computer just to host music for us... we all just dump all of our CDs to it.