"ulimit -s" has no effect?

[Maciej Kalisiak]

Mathias Waack <M.Waack at gmx.de> writes:
> Have you tried it with a different shell? Your example works for me
> as expected. But I'm using a bash where ulimit is a builtin. Don't
> know about zsh. 

"ulimit" is a builtin in zsh as well.  But I did try under "bash" from a Linux
console.  Same behaviour.  On two different machines.  This must be something
embarassingly simple.  Sanity check, just to be on the same page, here's my
procedure:

1. % python
2. # type in routine
   >>> def foo(i):
           print i
           foo(i+1)

3. >>> foo(0)
4. this properly raises exception at depth 998 or so
5. import sys
6. sys.setrecursionlimit(1000000)
7. >>> foo(0)
8. segfaults at about depth 7000+
9. % ulimit -s 32000
10. repeat steps 1 through 7
11. same segfault point

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