Re: [Sheflug] ulimit

[Will Newton <nospam [at] misconception.org.uk>]

On Mon, 7 May 2001, Barrie Bremner wrote:

>
>     Peter> I have also just installed RH 7.1. In my etc/profile I have
>     Peter> a line "ulimit -S -c 1000000 > /dev/null 2>&1

Can a core file be generated bigger than the maximum file size? This makes
less sense the more I look at it.

> I noticed this too. This is just placing a (-S)oftlimit on (-c)ore
> files as far as I can figure from man bash.

Yep.

> Haven't looked/noticed the 40Mb limit, but then I haven't started
> making iso images recently.

The XFree86 source tree is about 40Mb compressed.

> Where is the 40Mb limit set?

>From what I can tell, it isn't. I'll have a look at the bash sources.


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