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Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2001 21:51:12 +0200
From: Marius Gedminas <mgedmin@centras.lt>
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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
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