Greetings Monks,

I am in the process of re-engineering some startup scripts for a very poorly ported application. What's so poor about the application? Oh, I'd have to digress greatly from the subject at hand and it would end up soundling like a rant.

One of the items that needs to be done according to the vendor is running "ulimit -n 2048" prior to forking off each of about 8 processes that need to be started in a particular order. Looking up online doco for "ulimit" I find that this is a shell built in and not a seperate executable much to my horror. Further reading reveals that this is setting the maximum number of file handles the child can open at a time.

Right now I have the portion of the script doing something that I think is totally ignorant and want to come up with a way to fix it. Currently I have: 

exec('ulimit -n 2048; vendor_process');

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Ugly ugly ugly.

Has anyone ever come up with a Pure Perl® way of doing this? Is there a module out there that provides this functionality (yes I've already searched CPAN).

A search of CPAN for the word "ulimit" gave me a reference to psh but not anything else.

In reply to Setting ulimit within perl for child processes by blue_cowdawg

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