Set ulimit when using subprocess.Popen?

Jarek Zgoda jzgoda at o2.usun.pl
Mon Jan 28 08:59:28 EST 2008


Rob Wolfe napisał(a):
> 
> Jarek Zgoda napisał(a):
>> Hi, all,
>>
>> anybody has an idea on how to set ulimit (-v in my case, linux) for
>> process started using subprocess.Popen?
> 
> What about:
> 
> from subprocess import call
> call('ulimit -v 1000 && ulimit -v && ls', shell=True)

subprocess.Popen('ulimit -v 1024; ls', shell=True) works perfect.

Unfortunately, the nature of ulimit impacts deadly my application when
the limit is reached, so this knowledge is of no help in my case. ;)

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