[QUESTION] About the behavior when MAXACTION is exceeded

[Frank Ch. Eigler]

Zexuan Luo <spacewanderlzx@gmail.com> writes:

> When MAXACTION is exceeded, the systemtap will exit. But as MAXACTION
> is used to prevent a probe from running too much time, why not just
> aborting the current probe instead of quitting the whole session?

Aborting a probe running overtime is an error.  Aborting a script when
an error occurs is a separate policy and is configurable with
-DMAXERRORS=NNN or --suppress-handler-errors.

- FChE