access bash from C program?

[Thomas Charron]

On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 11:19 AM, 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.)

  Bruce, you wanted to increase the *stack* size, right?

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-- Thomas