Every recursive function should have an exit criterion (=handling the base case) to exit the recursion.
Without it, it wil recurse forever, until system resources run out (typically the call stack will overflow and your program will crash).
Newer, or current versions of Windows from XP to 10 use the NTFS file system. The file system supports up to 255 characters in a file name. The total path length supports up to 30,000 characters.
Computer Chips. / SILICON. This is just an educated guess
