On Tue, 18 Apr 2006, Carlos Barbet wrote:
> Is it fair to say that ActivePerl is preventing the end user from
> doing something horrible to their system and not a limitation in
> perl itself?

Yes, there is no guarantee that you can use Perl to exhaust any system-
wide resource. Just like there is no way to use up all your swap space
from Perl as long as the swap filesystem is larger than your virtual
memory address space.

So I guess for these kind of tasks Perl may not always be the best
tool and a more low level approach may be more appropriate.

Cheers,
-Jan


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