Hello I am noticing a strange phenomenon and I would appreciate it if someone helped me understand it
in my shell when I execute ulimit -a I get % ulimit -a time(seconds) unlimited file(blocks) unlimited data(kbytes) unlimited stack(kbytes) unlimited memory(kbytes) unlimited coredump(blocks) 1024 nofiles(descriptors) unlimited But when I put this in a perl script like #! /usr/bin/perl system("ulimit -a"); I get time(seconds) unlimited file(blocks) unlimited data(kbytes) 2097152 stack(kbytes) unlimited memory(kbytes) unlimited coredump(blocks) 1024 nofiles(descriptors) unlimited I dont understand why the data area size was limited to 2048MB as compared to unlimited is this a limit perl sets ? __________________________________ Yahoo! Mail - PC Magazine Editors' Choice 2005 http://mail.yahoo.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>