On Fri, Jan 30, 2004 at 04:40:30PM +0200, Hugo van der Merwe wrote: > I just noticed that in bash "ulimit -u" is the same as ash's > "ulimit -p", while bash has another meaning for "ulimit -p" ... This > makes writing scripts quite difficult, I'd say you cannot then use > ulimit in /bin/sh scripts, only in scripts specifically for bash or > ash.
The POSIX specification for ulimit mentions very few options, and indicates that the only portable-among-shells use of ulimit is to deal with the file size limit. http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007904975/utilities/ulimit.html -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
