From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 15411 invoked from network); 10 Nov 2003 19:22:59 -0000 Received: from sunsite.dk (130.225.247.90) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 10 Nov 2003 19:22:59 -0000 Received: (qmail 25788 invoked by alias); 10 Nov 2003 19:22:54 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-workers-help@sunsite.dk; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes X-Seq: 19236 Received: (qmail 25723 invoked from network); 10 Nov 2003 19:22:54 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO sunsite.dk) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 10 Nov 2003 19:22:54 -0000 X-MessageWall-Score: 0 (sunsite.dk) Received: from [213.97.199.90] by sunsite.dk (MessageWall 1.0.8) with SMTP; 10 Nov 2003 19:22:53 -0000 Received: (qmail 21725 invoked by uid 500); 10 Nov 2003 19:23:15 -0000 Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2003 20:23:15 +0100 From: David =?iso-8859-15?Q?G=F3mez?= To: Bart Schaefer Cc: Zsh-workers Subject: Re: Strange problem with ulimit Message-ID: <20031110192315.GA21628@fargo> Mail-Followup-To: Bart Schaefer , Zsh-workers References: <20031108095037.GA11894@fargo> <20031109161853.GL22980@DervishD> <1031109212136.ZM14473@candle.brasslantern.com> <20031110102410.GA15979@fargo> <1031110164206.ZM15639@candle.brasslantern.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <1031110164206.ZM15639@candle.brasslantern.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Hi Bart ;), > Actually it appears that my mail client had a killfile-type filter on > the iso-8859-15 character set, which I must have installed _years_ ago > (as in, pre-1996) and forgotten about. That seems to explain it, then ;) > There are lots of builtins that are supplied by modules,but zsh/rlimits > appears to be the only module documented as if it's always builtin. So, > "limit" and "unlimit" are also affected. It seems logical anyway that is not executed automatically, as sh-like shells don't bring inside a ulimit built-in. > ksh, and (approximately) csh. It happens to treat "emulate bash" as > "emulate sh" but that doesn't get you all that far. Yeah, i know it only emulates Bourne shell ;), i'd should clarified that. Indeed i wanted to say "running zsh in sh emulation mode where most of my old bash scripts work" ;))) Thanks for your help, -- David Gómez "The question of whether computers can think is just like the question of whether submarines can swim." -- Edsger W. Dijkstra