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.)
