Bug#807836: [Pkg-zsh-devel] Bug#807836: builtin unlimit leads to "xargs: invalid number for -s"

2016-01-04 Thread Thilo Six
Hello i thought i had sent this here already to bts. Turn out i missed it. So here it goes. Thilo Six schrieb/wrote: > > just a short addition, see below > May i ask then what is a real world use case for the unlimit builtin then? (Just to make it clear, i am not ironic here, just

Bug#807836: builtin unlimit leads to "xargs: invalid number for -s"

2016-01-04 Thread Thilo Six
Hello Daniel, Daniel Shahaf schrieb/wrote: >> Now if unlimit would instead evaluate the maximum physical possible size for >> that limit and activate that, i would say nice. > > Managing system resources is the OS's job, not zsh's. I suggest you > look into configuring your OS to set the hard

Bug#807836: builtin unlimit leads to "xargs: invalid number for -s"

2016-01-03 Thread Daniel Shahaf
Thilo Six wrote on Sat, Jan 02, 2016 at 20:28:39 +0100: > I do argue (and that is what has caused this bug) that setting a limit that > far > beyond anything capable on this current system that it is not even technical > able to handle that size of such a limit is useful. > And that is just what

Bug#807836: [Pkg-zsh-devel] Bug#807836: builtin unlimit leads to "xargs: invalid number for -s"

2016-01-02 Thread Daniel Shahaf
Control: retitle -1 zshbuiltins: Clarify the meaning of "hard limit" in the documentation of 'unlimit' Control: severity -1 wishlist Thilo Six wrote on Thu, Dec 31, 2015 at 12:19:19 +0100: > Daniel Shahaf schrieb/wrote: > > Thilo Six wrote on Wed, Dec 30, 2015 at 17:12:17 +0100: > >> So as i

Bug#807836: [Pkg-zsh-devel] Bug#807836: builtin unlimit leads to "xargs: invalid number for -s"

2016-01-02 Thread Thilo Six
Hello Daniel, Daniel Shahaf schrieb/wrote: >> May i ask then what is a real world use case for the unlimit builtin then? >> (Just to make it clear, i am not ironic here, just interested trying to >> understand it.) > > You might as well ask what's the purpose of having separate soft and > hard

Bug#807836: [Pkg-zsh-devel] Bug#807836: Bug#807836: builtin unlimit leads to "xargs: invalid number for -s"

2015-12-31 Thread Thilo Six
Daniel Shahaf schrieb/wrote: > Thilo Six wrote on Wed, Dec 30, 2015 at 17:12:17 +0100: >> The manpage says (as mentioned earlier): >> unlimit [ -hs ] resource ... >> The resource limit for each resource is set to the hard >> limit. >> >> Again "hard limit" by its own is as

Bug#807836: [Pkg-zsh-devel] Bug#807836: builtin unlimit leads to "xargs: invalid number for -s"

2015-12-30 Thread Thilo Six
Thilo Six schrieb/wrote: -- -- >> $ ulimit -v -m >> virtual memory (kbytes, -v) unlimited >> max memory size (kbytes, -m) unlimited >> >> I'm sure even with swap, there's no unlimited virtual memory available >> on my machine. > > > That is my main point. I think the "real

Bug#807836: [Pkg-zsh-devel] Bug#807836: Bug#807836: builtin unlimit leads to "xargs: invalid number for -s"

2015-12-30 Thread Daniel Shahaf
Thilo Six wrote on Wed, Dec 30, 2015 at 17:12:17 +0100: > The manpage says (as mentioned earlier): > unlimit [ -hs ] resource ... > The resource limit for each resource is set to the hard limit. > > Again "hard limit" by its own is as ambiguous as "unlimited". > The

Bug#807836: [Pkg-zsh-devel] Bug#807836: builtin unlimit leads to "xargs: invalid number for -s"

2015-12-28 Thread Axel Beckert
Hi Thilo, Thilo Six wrote: > in https://bugs.debian.org/807836 it was discovered that the Zsh builtin > "unlimit" has potential unforeseen side-effects. > > An easy to reproduce case for the problem is documented in > https://bugs.debian.org/807836#30 That example is IMHO a wrong usage of awk

Bug#807836: [Pkg-zsh-devel] Bug#807836: builtin unlimit leads to "xargs: invalid number for -s"

2015-12-28 Thread Thilo Six
Hello Axel, Axel Beckert schrieb/wrote: >> in https://bugs.debian.org/807836 it was discovered that the Zsh builtin >> "unlimit" has potential unforeseen side-effects. >> >> An easy to reproduce case for the problem is documented in >> https://bugs.debian.org/807836#30 > > That example is IMHO

Bug#807836: builtin unlimit leads to "xargs: invalid number for -s"

2015-12-28 Thread Thilo Six
Hello Zsh maintainers, in https://bugs.debian.org/807836 it was discovered that the Zsh builtin "unlimit" has potential unforeseen side-effects. An easy to reproduce case for the problem is documented in https://bugs.debian.org/807836#30 The problem here is that unlimit sets the maximum input