Thilo Six wrote on Wed, Dec 30, 2015 at 17:12:17 +0100: > The manpage says (as mentioned earlier): > unlimit [ -hs ] resource ... > The resource limit for each resource is set to the hard limit. > > Again "hard limit" by its own is as ambiguous as "unlimited". >
The intended meaning of "hard limit" in this context is "the value of the 'rlim_max' member of 'struct rlimit'". The getrlimit(2) man page (and its POSIX spec) use that term with the same meaning. > So as i said above, the definition of "hard limit" should be explicit in the > man > page, e.g.: > The resource limit for each resource is set to the hard limit, that is ... Maybe. I honestly don't have an opinion — I don't find the man page ambiguous in the first place ☺. Cheers, Daniel
