Path: utzoo!attcan!craig
From: craig@attcan.UUCP (Craig Campbell)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin
Subject: Re: Sys 5.3 vi file-size limit?
Message-ID: <13467@vpk2.UUCP>
Date: 17 Jan 91 20:12:14 GMT
References: <447@minya.UUCP> <1991Jan14.090434.2296@hawkmoon.MN.ORG>
Reply-To: craig@vpk2.ATT.COM (Craig Campbell)
Organization: AT&T Canada Inc., Toronto
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In article <1991Jan14.090434.2296@hawkmoon.MN.ORG> det@hawkmoon.MN.ORG (Derek E. Terveer) writes:
>jc@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@hawkmoon.MN.ORG - MNFHA, NCS - UMN Women's Lax, MWD