On Thu, May 18, 2023 at 10:11 AM Rob Landley <r...@landley.net> wrote:
> On 5/17/23 12:40, enh wrote: > > So... display, change, display what you changed it to? (Except you > know what you > > changed it to, there's no deltas, so it's just... reading back what > you wrote to > > confirm it took?) > > > > yeah, exactly. (your later "what if there's a hard limit in the way?" > point is a > > non-testing example where you might want to do that.) > > Fetching it back and printing "Warning: -a capped at hard limit %lld" if > they > don't match might be a better approach? (Could not set to requested value, > print > warning to stderr.) > yeah, that would probably be better for everyone. (i didn't try a debian codesearch to see if anyone's using ulimit in scripts.) > Again, probably an "ask chet". (Probably tomorrow, still recovering from > travel. > International flights have gotten a bit less comfortable since pre-pandemic > times, which is saying something...) > > Rob >
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