Bug 7339

Summary: ulimit -v doesn't work
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: Bradley <nobody+disabled>
Component: bashAssignee: Bernhard Rosenkraenzer <bero>
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Description Bradley 1999-11-26 05:15:22 UTC 
No matter what options I pass to ulimit -v, I get:

ulimit: cannot raise limit: Invalid argument

ulimit -AnythingElse appears to work fine.

An strace of bash shows 2 getrlimit calls (for RLIMIT_DATA and
RLIMIT_STACK), which return 0, but no setrlimit calls. There is a setrlimit
call if I do ulimit -m, for example.
Comment 1 Bernhard Rosenkraenzer 1999-11-28 13:46:59 UTC 
Works here... Are you sure you aren't using bash2?
Comment 2 Bradley 2000-01-26 12:17:59 UTC 
(Sorry for the delay. I didn't get your reply because I ended up with duplicate
bugzilla accounts, and my old email address got deleted from the records, so
your reply got sent to "disabled". See bug #7338).

I'm not using bash2:

~$ bash -version
GNU bash, version 1.14.7(1)
~$ ulimit -v 1000000
ulimit: cannot raise limit: Invalid argument

An strace of bash from another xterm shows the following:

~$ strace -p7379
read(0, "\r", 1)                        = 1
write(2, "\n", 1)                       = 1
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, [INT], [], 8) = 0
ioctl(0, SNDCTL_TMR_START, {B38400 opost isig icanon echo ...}) = 0
ioctl(0, TCGETS, {B38400 opost isig icanon echo ...}) = 0
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_SETMASK, [], NULL, 8) = 0
rt_sigaction(SIGINT, {0x804bf34, [], 0x4000000}, {0x8088d5c, [], 0x4000000}, 8)
= 0
rt_sigaction(SIGALRM, {0x804bb38, [], 0x4000000}, {0x8088d5c, [], 0x4000000}, 8)
= 0
rt_sigaction(SIGWINCH, {SIG_DFL}, {0x8088d00, [], 0x4000000}, 8) = 0
rt_sigaction(SIGINT, {0x804bf34, [], 0x4000000}, {0x804bf34, [], 0x4000000}, 8)
= 0
getrlimit(RLIMIT_DATA, {rlim_cur=RLIM_INFINITY, rlim_max=RLIM_INFINITY}) = 0
getrlimit(RLIMIT_STACK, {rlim_cur=8192*1024, rlim_max=RLIM_INFINITY}) = 0
write(2, "ulimit: cannot raise limit: Inva"..., 45) = 45
rt_sigaction(SIGINT, {0x804bf34, [], 0x4000000}, {0x804bf34, [], 0x4000000}, 8)
= 0
time(NULL)                              = 948889516
geteuid()                               = 500
geteuid()                               = 500
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, [CHLD TTOU], [], 8) = 0
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_SETMASK, [], NULL, 8) = 0
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, [CHLD TSTP TTIN TTOU], [], 8) = 0
ioctl(255, TIOCSPGRP, [7379])           = 0
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_SETMASK, [], NULL, 8) = 0
rt_sigaction(SIGINT, {0x804bf34, [], 0x4000000}, {0x804bf34, [], 0x4000000}, 8)
= 0
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, [INT], [], 8) = 0
ioctl(0, TCGETS, {B38400 opost isig icanon echo ...}) = 0
ioctl(0, SNDCTL_TMR_START, {B38400 opost isig -icanon -echo ...}) = 0
ioctl(0, TCGETS, {B38400 opost isig -icanon -echo ...}) = 0
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_SETMASK, [], NULL, 8) = 0
rt_sigaction(SIGINT, {0x8088d5c, [], 0x4000000}, {0x804bf34, [], 0x4000000}, 8)
= 0
rt_sigaction(SIGALRM, {0x8088d5c, [], 0x4000000}, {0x804bb38, [], 0x4000000}, 8)
= 0
rt_sigaction(SIGWINCH, {0x8088d00, [], 0x4000000}, {SIG_DFL}, 8) = 0
write(2, "~$ ", 3)                      = 3