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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Resource Limits
Date: 10 Mar 1996 11:29:00 GMT
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kheuer@gwdg.de (Konrad Heuer) writes:

> The program terminates after allocating 4 MB. E.g., if I double the
> data limit to 16 MB, the program gets 8 MB. All this is independent of
> the login shell I use (bash, csh, ksh, tcsh, zsh) except the Bourne
                                                    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> shell which doesn't support limits of course.
  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

No idea on your problem, just an addendum: /bin/sh in -current does
understand resource limits as well.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
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