That is what I do now. I was wondering if there was a programmatic or more elegant way...
The way that has been suggested would be roughly a=getrlimit; //save current setting ulimit // do what I want setrlimit=a // restore setting ? Thanks, -Bruce -----Original Message----- From: David J Berube [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 02, 2008 11:55 AM To: Thomas Charron Cc: Labitt, Bruce; Greater NH Linux User Group Subject: Re: access bash from C program? Come to think of it, it'd probably just be easier to run ulimit before you run the C program. David Berube Berube Consulting [EMAIL PROTECTED] (603)-485-9622 http://www.berubeconsulting.com/ Thomas Charron wrote: > On 6/2/08, Labitt, Bruce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I've been scratching my brains here a bit. Is there an easy way to get >> access to the shell (bash) from within a C program? I left my K&R at >> home... >> My googling has not particularly enlightened me, either... >> I'd like to run the equivalent of the command "$ ulimit -s hard" >> I need to do this because I need much more stack than the terminal >> window ordinarily allows. (Can't run FFTs > 256K without above >> command.) > > See the ulimit() function? Or getrlimit() and setrlimit()? > _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/