Re: ulimit block size

[Pete Graner]

On 10/1/07, Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu> wrote:
> > We received a bug report[1] against bash-3.2 in Fedora 7, where the
> > reporter states that ulimit in bash is using a block size of 1024 vs.
> > 512 which is in the opengroup standard[2].
> >
> > What the upstream position on this?
>
> I'll take a look.  If bash is using 1024 while in posix mode, it's a bug.
>

Looking I don't see where is could be changed based on POSIX, according to:

bash-3.2/builtins/ulimit.def:

static RESOURCE_LIMITS limits[] = {
#ifdef RLIMIT_CORE
  { 'c',        RLIMIT_CORE,  1024,     "core file size",      "blocks" },
#endif

~p
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Pete Graner <pgraner@redhat.com>
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