[Python-Dev] stack check on Unix: any suggestions?

[Thomas Wouters]

On Wed, Aug 30, 2000 at 01:30:01PM +0200, Jack Jansen wrote:

> My SGI has getrlimit(RLIMIT_STACK) which should do the trick. But maybe this 
> is an sgi-ism? Otherwise RLIMIT_VMEM and subtracting brk() may do the trick.

No, getrlimit(RLIMIT_STACK, &rlim) is the way to go. 'getrlimit' isn't
available everywhere, but the RLIMIT_STACK constant is universal, as far as
I know. And we can use autoconf to figure out if it's available.

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