Re: human-friendly ulimit values?

On Wed, Feb 21, 2024 at 12:17 PM Andreas Schwab wrote: ... > Or ulimit -v $((8*1024*1024)) > Good point. If a user remembers that "-v" implicitly works in 1024-byte units, that's a good shortcut.

human-friendly ulimit values?

When setting memory-size limits via "ulimits", users have to manually convert from their intuitive units. E.g., for limiting virtual memory to 8 gigabytes, the invocation is "ulimit -v 8388608", rather than something like "ulimit -v 8gb". If I were to submit a patch for this, is there any chance