From: Thomas Leitner <t_leitner@...>
Date: 2004-07-29T23:51:45+09:00
Subject: Re: ulimit alike in ruby?

| Dear ruby-hackers,
| 
| is there any way to set resource limits in ruby? I am starting a
| program (popen) that should not create files > 1 MB, so I think that
| the linux/unix syscall setrlimit would be the best way for that.
| Sure I can write an sh-wrapper or c-wrapper around the ruby process,
| but I'd like to avoid that. But I haven't found any kernel#ulimit or
| alike methods in ruby.

You could write an extension in C that calls the setrlimit function.
Have a look at pickaxe and the section named "Extending Ruby".

*hth*,
Thomas