Hello monks. I'm trying to capture an error if i run out of disk space. To test this (I've never done anything like this before) I have started a new shell (bash) and ran ulimit -f 10. I then wrote a dummy program (called lots_of_print.pl) to try and capture the error and print to stderr. However I'm not getting my program's error message but I'm getting a message from the OS or maybe from the perl interpreter (so I can tell ulimit worked). Any ideas what I'm doing wrong? Thanks for your help, Erik

here is my shell output 
[egartz@localhost fullment_programs]$ ulimit -f 10
[egartz@localhost fullment_programs]$ ./lots_of_print.pl
File size limit exceeded
[egartz@localhost fullment_programs]$

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here is my program 
#!/usr/local/bin/perl -w
use strict;

open (LARGE_FILE, ">large_file.txt");

for ( 1 .. 10000){
        print LARGE_FILE "dummy line...dummy line...dummy line...dummy
+ line...dummy line...dummy line...dummy line...\n" or print STDERR "i
+ caught the error!\n";
}

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In reply to perl/linux ulimit -f question by egunnar

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