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 ? 





                
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