cgw_jlw@tiscali.co.uk wrote:
> I've never come across this before, but lo-and-behold, "ulimit -f" can
> be used to set a maximum filesize.
> I don't see how you can trap the event where the filesize exceeds it's
> maximum and point output elsewhere, sorry.

A process which exceeds its maximum filesize gets SIGXFSZ, so you
could trap that and use a signal handler to say "close the existing file
and open a new one".  I don't think the OP said exactly what his program
was doing, so it's hard to know whether the problem is best handled this
way or at another organizational/structural/syntactical level.  For
example, maybe the output could go to standard out and get piped into
'split' instead.

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