From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 8841 invoked from network); 1 Mar 2002 16:44:20 -0000 Received: from sunsite.dk (130.225.247.90) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 1 Mar 2002 16:44:20 -0000 Received: (qmail 829 invoked by alias); 1 Mar 2002 16:44:08 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-users-help@sunsite.dk; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes X-Seq: 4731 Received: (qmail 816 invoked from network); 1 Mar 2002 16:44:08 -0000 From: jarausch@igpm.rwth-aachen.de Message-Id: <200203011643.RAA12269@numa1.igpm.rwth-aachen.de> Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2002 17:43:31 +0100 Reply-To: jarausch@igpm.rwth-aachen.de Subject: Re: unlimit filesize (how?) To: schaefer@brasslantern.com cc: zsh-users@sunsite.dk In-Reply-To: <1020301163217.ZM18624@candle.brasslantern.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/plain; charset=us-ascii On 1 Mar, Bart Schaefer wrote: > On Mar 1, 12:59pm, jarausch@igpm.rwth-aachen.de wrote: > } > } Doing just an 'fdisk' and trying to write the partition table > } back (on a 40 Gb disk) fails. Switching to 'bash' works fine. > > Are you sure this isn't a $path problem, that is, are you really > executing the same fdisk binary in both cases? I don't *think* > filesize limits should affect a raw disk device file. > > } Trying to set the filesize limit to 'unlimited' or a large > } value gives an error message saying it's not possible to > } use such a big value. > > This doesn't sound like a zsh error message, but I can't be sure. It > would be helpful if you quoted the *exact* message. > No, it isn't. But somehow, only if I start 'zsh' first I get this and 'limit' shows this "limited" filesize. I only have a 'ulimit -c 0' in my .zshenv file and my global zshenv file. I just want to set the limit to 'unlimited'. -- Helmut Jarausch Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische Mathematik Institute of Technology, RWTH Aachen D 52056 Aachen, Germany