Sys 5.3 vi file-size limit?
Craig Campbell
craig at attcan.UUCP
Fri Jan 18 07:12:14 AEST 1991
In article <1991Jan14.090434.2296 at hawkmoon.MN.ORG> det at hawkmoon.MN.ORG (Derek E. Terveer) writes:
>jc at minya.UUCP (John Chambers) writes:
>
>>This
>>isn't a ulimit problem; I've verified that vi (like all the rest
>>of my applications) has the largest ulimit that I've convinced
>>the system to accept, much large than half a Mbyte.
>
>I'm confused here. The ulimit basically applies to a particular shell session
>and is not attachable to a specific application, like vi. Perhaps you meant to
>say that "I have verified that my ulimit is >>.5MB?"
ulimit is an attribute inherrited from the parent by all child processes.
Unless a program is running an effective uid of root, its ulimit may only be
decreased.
I beleive that John Chambers is completely correct. Remember that a particular
shell session is merely a process running for a time. This process may spawn
children (you run other programs). All the rules still apply in full force.
>--
>Derek "Tigger" Terveer det at hawkmoon.MN.ORG - MNFHA, NCS - UMN Women's Lax, MWD
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