Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 10 Jun 2003 19:25:40 +0200 | From | Martin Mares <> | Subject | Re: Large files |
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Hello!
> On the system that fails, there are no ulimits and it's the root > account, therefore I don't know how to set the above limit to > RLIM_INFINITY (~0LU). It's also version 2.4.20. I don't think > it has anything to do with 'rlim' shown above.
I think it has -- login (or PAM) in most distributions sets the file size limit to 2GB instead of RLIM_INFINITY. If you are root, try `ulimit -f unlimited' to see if it helps.
> sending a signal when the file-size exceeds some level is preposterous.
No, it's just the definition of the rlimits. Not leaving them at RLIM_INFINITY by default is preposterous.
Have a nice fortnight -- Martin `MJ' Mares <mj@ucw.cz> http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~mj/ Faculty of Math and Physics, Charles University, Prague, Czech Rep., Earth COBOL -- Compiles Only Because Of Luck - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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