Fantastic, that fixed it. For future readers of this thread (probably me, next time I run into this and have forgotten the fix), here is what I learned: The stacksize and other limits are properties of the shell in which the script is running. Typing the command "limit" will show you the current resource limits for your shell. The command "limit stacksize 1024" (or whatever value) will change the stacksize resource limit to the new value.
On Friday, July 26, 2002, at 01:13 PM, Edward Moy wrote: > On Friday, July 26, 2002, at 12:54 PM, tsackett wrote: > >> Is there a known limitation to how many lines or characters that eval >> can handle in Mac OS X? >> >> I have created a system where a Perl script, running on a client >> machine, executes task scripts written in Perl sent to it by a >> server. The client script reads in the entire task script, then uses >> eval to execute it. >> >> Normally, this works fine. However, Mac OS X runs into a segmentation >> fault when it tries to eval one of my large scripts. The segmentation >> fault happens when the script is larger than 1100 lines. The script >> works fine on Windows, Linux, and Solaris. > > One possibility is that the script is running out of stack space: > > % limit > cputime unlimited > filesize unlimited > datasize 6144 kbytes > stacksize 512 kbytes > coredumpsize 0 kbytes > memoryuse unlimited > descriptors 256 > memorylocked unlimited > maxproc 100 > > You might try upping the stacksize limit. Or it might even be the > datasize limit. > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > -- > Edward Moy > Apple Computer, Inc. > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > (This message is from me as a reader of this list, and not a statement > from Apple.) > > >
