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| author | Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi> | 1999-09-17 11:49:30 +0000 |
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| committer | Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi> | 1999-09-17 11:49:30 +0000 |
| commit | eed7fde46a7c97cd15428b560d0a91c36138ee71 (patch) | |
| tree | 94901758496aaa93022529749a15209be24111d9 /pod/perldelta.pod | |
| parent | 9461e3d094a555dd8be14b1286f461b93b333ad9 (diff) | |
| download | perl-eed7fde46a7c97cd15428b560d0a91c36138ee71.tar.gz | |
Filesystem quotas may stop you from using large files.
p4raw-id: //depot/cfgperl@4167
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diff --git a/pod/perldelta.pod b/pod/perldelta.pod index de5a718a25..1118c790d5 100644 --- a/pod/perldelta.pod +++ b/pod/perldelta.pod @@ -185,16 +185,23 @@ start losing precision (their lower digits). If you have filesystems that support "large files" (files larger than 2 gigabytes), you may now also be able to create and access them from Perl. -Note that in addition to requiring a proper file system to do this you -may also need to adjust your per-process (or your per-system, or per-user-group) -maximum filesize limits before running Perl scripts that try to handle large -files, especially if you intend to write such files. - -Adjusting your file system/system limits is outside the scope of Perl. -For process limits, you may try to increase the limits using your -shell's limit/ulimit command before running Perl. The BSD::Resource -extension (not included with the standard Perl distribution) may also -be of use, it contains getrlimit/setrlimit calls. +Note that in addition to requiring a proper file system to do large +files you may also need to adjust your per-process (or your +per-system, or per-process-group, or per-user-group) maximum filesize +limits before running Perl scripts that try to handle large files, +especially if you intend to write such files. + +Finally, in addition to your process/process group maximum filesize +limits, you may have quota limits on your filesystems that stop you +(your user id or your user group id) from using large files. + +Adjusting your process/user/group/file system/operating system limits +is outside the scope of Perl core language. For process limits, you +may try increasing the limits using your shell's limits/limit/ulimit +command before running Perl. The BSD::Resource extension (not +included with the standard Perl distribution) may also be of use, it +offers the getrlimit/setrlimit interface that can be used to adjust +process resource usage limits, including the maximum filesize limit. (Large file support is related to 64-bit support, for obvious reasons.) |