Jakub Jelinek <ja...@redhat.com> writes:
>> Why should this be Linux-specific? I think the same logic applies
>> everywhere.
>
> Because ulimit -u is Linux specific? At least, google doesn't show any
> hints about any other OSes having such limit, neither RLIMIT_NPROC nor
> ulimit -u.
At best, it's shell-specific: Solaris 11 /bin/sh (which is ksh93) does
have it, although admittedly previous Solaris/IRIX/Tru64 UNIX shells
don't. On the other hand, bash has it on all of those systems.
Why not simply test if ulimit -u doesn't error and then use it? I'd
very much prefer this to a solution that is unnecessarily OS-specific.
Thanks.
Rainer
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