How do I set a ulimit from inside a Perl script that applies to its children?

Question

I have a Perl script that does various installation steps to set up a development box for our company. It runs various shell scripts, some of which crash due to lower than r

Answer 1

I ended up prepending ulimit -s BLA to the commands that needed it. I specifically didn't want to go with BSD::Resource because it's not a default Perl package and was missing on about half of the existing dev machines. No user interaction was a specific requirement.