Follow Up Task in creation of new Task

Question

I am getting bit confused on the probable answer as to what would happen on executing the below code block (considering trigger event as After Insert and scenario as to Create a Follow Up Task whenever a new Task is created)?

List<Task> newLstTask = new List<Task>();
    for(Task t : trigger.new){
      Task tsk = new Task();
      tsk.Subject = 'Follow Up';
      newLstTask.add(tsk);
    }
insert newLstTask;

Would this as I'm thinking result in infinite loop and eventually fail or would it end up creating multiple tasks for each Task in trigger.new?

Currently I get an error dml statement cannot operate on trigger.new or trigger.old after insert when I create a Task from UI on any object.

Please see below the error when I create a Task on UI:

Answer 1

This trigger would eventually fail when the maximum trigger recursion depth was reached, which is 16. This means that, assuming there was 1 task to begin with, an additional 15 tasks would be created, and finally the system would throw a System.LimitException (which cannot be caught and is immediately fatal to the current transaction).

If you have an error regarding "DML statement cannot operate on Trigger.new or Trigger.old", this would be in a separate trigger or line of code somewhere. The code provided in your question would not result in this error by itself. You would need to do additional debugging to find out where this error is coming from.

Answer 2

It seems the error is coming from somewhere else than above code. Possibly a trigger depth exceeding error could be avoided adding some logic similar to below (to avoid newly created tasks to run trigger again to create another set of tasks, hence recursively end up in max. trigger depth exception).

List<Task> newLstTask = new List<Task>();
    for(Task t : trigger.new){
      if (t.subject!='Follow Up'){
         Task tsk = new Task();
         tsk.Subject = 'Follow Up';
         newLstTask.add(tsk);
      }
    }
insert newLstTask;

Cheers!