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From: Marius Gedminas <mgedmin@centras.lt>
To: Linux kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: DD-ing from device to device.
Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2001 21:51:12 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20011119215112.B25118@gintaras> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20011119101340.I1308@lynx.no> <200111191728.SAA05962@cave.bitwizard.nl>
In-Reply-To: <200111191728.SAA05962@cave.bitwizard.nl>

On Mon, Nov 19, 2001 at 06:28:55PM +0100, Rogier Wolff wrote:
> Now, can someone tell me why "unlimited" is interpreted somehow as 2G
> or something thereabouts? :
> 
>  /home/wolff> limit
> cputime         unlimited
> filesize        unlimited

I seem to recall seeing something about this on lkml: the kernel
considers 0xffffffff to be unlimited internally, but the setrlimit
syscall converts user-supplied 0xffffffff into 0x7fffffff.

Here's the relevant thread:
http://www.uwsg.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0111.1/0086.html

Marius Gedminas
-- 
"If it ain't broke, don't fix it."
- Bert Lantz

  reply	other threads:[~2001-11-19 19:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-11-18 13:26 DD-ing from device to device Rogier Wolff
2001-11-19 17:13 ` Andreas Dilger
2001-11-19 17:28   ` Rogier Wolff
2001-11-19 19:51     ` Marius Gedminas [this message]
2001-11-19 20:02     ` Andreas Dilger
2001-11-19 20:13       ` Rogier Wolff
2001-11-19 20:50         ` Andreas Dilger

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