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From: David Peer <davidpeer@cs.huji.ac.il>
To: Micah Cowan <micah@cowan.name>
Cc: zsh-workers@sunsite.dk
Subject: Re: Bug in ulimit ?
Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2007 12:33:39 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <46249473.8040206@cs.huji.ac.il> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <462493C0.20700@cowan.name>

Micah Cowan wrote:

> David Peer wrote:
>   
>> If the user run: ulimit -t 0, he can run jobs without any cputime
>> limitation:
>>     
>
> This sounds more like a kernel problem to me than a zsh bug. I get the
> same behavior on my Ubuntu 7.04 (beta) system, in _bash_.
>
> I note that getrlimit(2) says:
>
>  In 2.6.x kernels before 2.6.17, a RLIMIT_CPU  limit  of  0  is  wrongly
>  treated  as "no limit" (like RLIM_INFINITY).  Since kernel 2.6.17, set‐
>  ting a limit of 0 does have an effect, but is  actually  treated  as  a
>  limit of 1 second.
>
> However, I'm running 2.6.20(-14-generic), and still experiencing that
> symptom.
>
>   
I'll check if it's fixed in 2.6.21... but I forgot to mention that I use 
kernel 2.6.20.3


  reply	other threads:[~2007-04-17  9:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-04-17  9:00 David Peer
2007-04-17  9:30 ` Micah Cowan
2007-04-17  9:33   ` David Peer [this message]
2007-04-17  9:42   ` Stephane Chazelas
2007-04-17 10:04     ` Micah Cowan
2007-04-17 10:43       ` Stephane Chazelas
2007-04-17 10:55         ` Micah Cowan
2007-04-17 12:53           ` Stephane Chazelas
2007-04-17 13:03             ` Stephane Chazelas
2007-04-17 13:24               ` Stephane Chazelas
2007-04-17 13:34                 ` Stephane Chazelas
2007-04-17 13:54                   ` David Peer
2007-04-17 13:57                     ` David Peer
2007-04-17 15:02                   ` [OT] " Stephane Chazelas
2007-04-17 10:49       ` Micah Cowan
2007-04-17 14:15   ` Tom Alsberg
2007-04-17 15:48     ` David Peer
     [not found]     ` <20070417151501.GH4955@sc.homeunix.net>
2007-04-18  7:46       ` (Off-Topic) " Tom Alsberg
2007-04-18  8:22         ` Stephane Chazelas
2007-04-18  9:23           ` (Off-Topic) Bug in ulimit? Tom Alsberg
2007-04-18 10:10             ` Stephane Chazelas

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