Avoid crash in recursive Dynamic

Question

Bug introduced in 9.0 or earlier, persisting through 13.2 or later

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With the following Dynamic cell, I can reproducibly crash Mathematica, so do not try this unless you have saved all your work!

l=1;
Dynamic[Sin[l = l + 1]]

This will harmlessly run forever, or until you try to right-click on the dynamic output (to get the context menu and perhaps to copy the current value). When you right-click on it, Mathematica crashes.

Is there a simple way to avoid or catch this error before it occurs?

Edit

I also see this crash when literally using the example from the documentation for Dynamic (under "Applications"):

{Trigger[Dynamic[x, (a = FractionalPart[#]; x = Round[#]) &], {0, 
   Infinity}], 
 Dynamic[{Quotient[x, 60], Mod[x, 60], SetPrecision[10 a, 2]}]}

and again trying to right-click. So it's not like I'm doing something outlandish here.

Edit 2 The link Szabolcs found does indeed answer my question:

EventHandler[Dynamic[Sin[l = l + 1]], {"MouseUp", 2} :> Null]

seems to prevent the crash.

Answer 1

Based on this MathGroup post describing a similar crash, the right click can be caught and discarded like this:

l = 1;
EventHandler[Dynamic[Sin[l = l + 1]], {"MouseUp", 2} :> Null]

This won't let you copy the value, but it will prevent crashes due to accidental right clicks.

You can obtain the value by evaluating l as a different input.