From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 8287 invoked from network); 20 Oct 1999 21:05:56 -0000 Received: from sunsite.auc.dk (130.225.51.30) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 20 Oct 1999 21:05:56 -0000 Received: (qmail 8843 invoked by alias); 20 Oct 1999 20:36:31 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-workers-help@sunsite.auc.dk; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes X-Seq: 8347 Received: (qmail 2085 invoked from network); 20 Oct 1999 20:29:45 -0000 Subject: Re: PATCH: Re: Patch: 3.1.6-bart-7: Another rlimit In-Reply-To: <991019061342.ZM4317@candle.brasslantern.com> from Bart Schaefer at "Oct 19, 1999 6:13:42 am" To: schaefer@candle.brasslantern.com (Bart Schaefer) Date: Wed, 20 Oct 1999 21:17:07 +0100 (BST) Cc: zsh-workers@sunsite.auc.dk X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL48 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: From: Zefram Bart Schaefer wrote: >} RLIMIT_PTHREAD The maximum number of threads (pthreads(5)) > >The "ulimit -a" command should report this; same for "sockbufsize". Should it? There are several limits that ulimit can't set; I intuitively feel that it should be reporting only the same set of limits that it can set. Btw, the name "maxpthreads" seems sub-optimal -- what's wrong with "maxthreads"? -zefram