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Re: /bin/athena/tcsh "unlimit" fails
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert A Basch)
Thu May 20 19:03:49 1999
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To: Dan Winship <danw@MIT.EDU>
Cc: "Mark W. Eichin" <eichin@opus.mit.edu>, Marc Horowitz <marc@MIT.EDU>,
testers@MIT.EDU
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Date: Thu, 20 May 1999 19:03:41 EDT
From: Robert A Basch <rbasch@MIT.EDU>
> The problem seems to be that sys/resource.h defines RLIM_INFINITY to
> 2^31-1 if you're using o32 and 2^63-1 if you're using n32, but
> setrlimit doesn't seem to be aware of this and fails (only on some
> limits?) if you set rlim_cur to the n32 RLIM_INFINITY. setrlimit64
> doesn't deal either.
I think this is a tcsh bug. In sh.func.c, RLIM_TYPE is typedef'ed as an
unsigned long, instead of using rlim_t; resource.h (correctly) defines
the latter as 64 bits for n32. I'll submit a patch which uses rlim_t for
sgi. (It's already using rlim_t on Solaris).
Bob
