From: Kent Sibilev <ksibilev@...>
Date: 2004-07-30T00:03:28+09:00
Subject: Re: ulimit alike in ruby?

Check out http://raa.ruby-lang.org/project/rlimit/

I haven't tried it though.

Cheers,
Kent.

On Jul 29, 2004, at 8:06 AM, Patrick Gundlach wrote:

> 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.
>
> Patrick
>