Hi, the following has been reported in Debian at http://bugs.debian.org/765410 and I can reprodcue it with 4.3.10, 4.3.17, 5.0.6 and 5.0.7.
The issue seems to only appear if ulimit is run as root user. I was not able to reproduce it as non-root user. (I was also unable to reproduce it on any of Debian's kfreebsd-* architectures, so it may be a linux-only issue, too.) ----- Forwarded message from Goswin von Brederlow <[email protected]> ----- Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2014 21:42:26 +0200 From: Goswin von Brederlow <[email protected]> To: Debian Bug Tracking System <[email protected]> Subject: [Pkg-zsh-devel] Bug#765410: ulimit broken if it fails once Reply-To: Goswin von Brederlow <[email protected]>, [email protected] Package: zsh Version: 5.0.5-2 Severity: normal root@frosties:~# ulimit -n 1000 root@frosties:~# ulimit -n 10000000 limit: setrlimit failed: operation not permitted root@frosties:~# ulimit -n 1000 limit: setrlimit failed: operation not permitted Once setting a limit with ulimit fails all further attempts to set a limit will also fail. But only in zsh. Works fine in bash. MfG Goswin -- System Information: Debian Release: jessie/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 3.14-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=de_DE (charmap=ISO-8859-1) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages zsh depends on: ii libc6 2.19-1 ii libcap2 1:2.22-1.2 ii libtinfo5 5.9+20140913-1 ii zsh-common 5.0.5-2 Versions of packages zsh recommends: ii libncursesw5 5.9+20140913-1 ii libpcre3 1:8.31-5 Versions of packages zsh suggests: pn zsh-doc <none> -- debconf information excluded ----- End forwarded message ----- Kind regards, Axel -- /~\ Plain Text Ribbon Campaign | Axel Beckert \ / Say No to HTML in E-Mail and News | [email protected] (Mail) X See http://www.nonhtmlmail.org/campaign.html | [email protected] (Mail+Jabber) / \ I love long mails: http://email.is-not-s.ms/ | http://noone.org/abe/ (Web) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
