From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Herbert Xu Subject: Re: [PATCH] man: Document ulimit -v Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2016 13:03:23 +0800 Message-ID: <20160121050323.GA4908@gondor.apana.org.au> References: <87fuxs5dtk.fsf@ritchie.wxcvbn.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Return-path: Received: from helcar.hengli.com.au ([209.40.204.226]:54627 "EHLO helcar.hengli.com.au" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750758AbcAUFDd (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Jan 2016 00:03:33 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87fuxs5dtk.fsf@ritchie.wxcvbn.org> Sender: dash-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: dash@vger.kernel.org To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?J=E9r=E9mie_Courr=E8ges-Anglas?= Cc: gioele@svario.it, dash@vger.kernel.org J=E9r=E9mie Courr=E8ges-Anglas wrote: > Gioele Barabucci writes: >=20 >> Document that `ulimit` can set the `RLIMIT_AS` limit (virtual memory= ) with >> the `-v` flag. >=20 > I don't know much about RLIMIT_AS, but I know that it isn't supported= on > all systems where dash runs, eg OpenBSD. Maybe is it Linux-specific? >=20 > Anyway, it would be better if the manpage said that the -v flag may n= ot > be implemented on all platforms. >=20 > The same could be said about ulimit -w. (I did not check the other fl= ags). Rather than doing that we could just pass the manpage through cpp or some similar mechanism so that this becomes conditional. Cheers, --=20 Email: Herbert Xu Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt