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On Wed, 7 Dec 2005, Bogdan Costescu wrote:
... can't "ulimit -l X" where X is larger than the "hard" value from limits.conf.
This is true for a normal user; however root can modify the hard limits in its shells. Also a batch system, running as root on a compute node, can set the hard and soft values to something different from the system (limits.conf) values before starting the user shell or compute process, via setrlimit(2).
Is the limits.conf issue specific to Linux ? Aren't there other OSes that use PAM and would be affected as well ?
-- Bogdan Costescu IWR - Interdisziplinaeres Zentrum fuer Wissenschaftliches Rechnen Universitaet Heidelberg, INF 368, D-69120 Heidelberg, GERMANY Telephone: +49 6221 54 8869, Telefax: +49 6221 54 8868 E-mail: bogdan.coste...@iwr.uni-heidelberg.de
