# # README # This Perl extension implements the BSD process resource limit functions getrusage() getrlimit() setrlimit() and the BSD process priority functions. getpriority() setpriority() To install read the INSTALL. Documentation in pod format in Resource.pm. -- Jarkko Hietaniemi 1997-Apr-08 --------------- NOTE 0: Perl 5 is required. Also is required the same C compilation environment that was used to compile that Perl 5. NOTE 1: If your operating system does not support these BSD functions, Perl cannot help. In detailed terms: you _must_ have the C header file *). If you do not, this package is of little use to you. NOTE 2: The header file alone is not enough: you must have library support also. The C compiler include paths (-I...) and library paths (-L...) and the attempted libraries (-l...) are listed in Makefile.PL. NOTE 3: You cannot pass or receive 64-bit rlimits for setrlimit() and getrlimit(). This is a limitation of Perl. NOTE 4: More caveats (vendors' sloppy support for these things, et. al.) in the Resource.pm inlined pod doc. --------------- *) There is one exception to this on one platform. The terminally curious can find out where. # eof