I was wondering adding/generalizing some of the test shell scripts in coreutils. Often one wants to check various boundary cases so it would be nice to be able to obtain various limits as coreutils sees them.
I could use getconf, but that's not guaranteed to match coreutils and doesn't if you look at `getconf SSIZE_MAX`, and I'm not sure of it's availability anyway. So I was wondering if there was something already existing to get these limits from coreutils? If not then perhaps adding a util so one could: eval $(getlimits) to have them available in shell? I'm not suggesting util for users, just for use by the coreutils test scripts. cheers, Pádraig. _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
