access bash from C program?

[David J Berube]

Come to think of it, it'd probably just be easier to run ulimit before 
you run the C program.

David Berube
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Thomas Charron wrote:
> On 6/2/08, Labitt, Bruce <labittb1 at tycoelectronics.com> wrote:
>> I've been scratching my brains here a bit.  Is there an easy way to get
>> access to the shell (bash) from within a C program?  I left my K&R at
>> home...
>> My googling has not particularly enlightened me, either...
>> I'd like to run the equivalent of the command "$ ulimit -s hard"
>> I need to do this because I need much more stack than the terminal
>> window ordinarily allows.  (Can't run FFTs > 256K without above
>> command.)
> 
>   See the ulimit() function?  Or getrlimit() and setrlimit()?
>