Every once in awhile, we get a bit of terrible code, and our submitter also shares, "this isn't called anywhere," which is good, but also bad. Ernesto sends us a function which is called in only one place:
///
/// Shutdown server
///
private void shutdownServer()
{
shutdownServer();
}
The "one place", obviously, is within itself. This is the Google Search definition of recursion, where each recursive call is just the original call, over and over again.
This is part of a C# service, and this method shuts down the server, presumably by triggering a stack overflow. Unless C# has added tail calls, anyway.
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This post originally appeared on The Daily WTF.