From: Milan Maksimovic <maksa@...>
Date: 2001-12-10T16:12:17+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:28066] RE:  stack overflow (was Ruby IDE?? What about using Eclipse??)

>> Is it just because the directory is too deep, 
>> or is there an error in my recursion? 

Instead of rolling your own directory traversal you 
might want to consider using module Find which does 
exactly what you need:

require 'Find'

Find.find( rootFolder ) do | aFile |
   fixPermissions( aFile )
end


It worked for me on very deep directory trees.


Regards,
Maksa