'Can calling an operating system function cause a stack overflow?
(Title: Can calling an operating system function cause a stack overflow?)
Or is the function always guaranteed to return an error code of some kind to indicate the failure, without crashing the program in the process?
If it can indeed cause a stack overflow, how can you make sure your program never has a chance to crash?
I'm interested in the behavior under Windows, though answers about how other operating systems manage this (e.g. Linux syscalls) are informative as well.
[Edit: For clarification, I'm talking about the behavior of programs as machine code, run by the processor. No high level languages (other than, perhaps, C); I mean actual OS functionality].
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