[Pkg-zsh-devel] Bug#765410: Fwd: Bug#765410: ulimit broken as root if it fails once [origin: goswin-v-b at web.de]

[Axel Beckert]

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 <goswin-v-b at web.de> -----
Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2014 21:42:26 +0200
From: Goswin von Brederlow <goswin-v-b at web.de>
To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit at bugs.debian.org>
Subject: [Pkg-zsh-devel] Bug#765410: ulimit broken if it fails once
Reply-To: Goswin von Brederlow <goswin-v-b at web.de>, 765410 at bugs.debian.org

Package: zsh
Version: 5.0.5-2
Severity: normal

root at frosties:~# ulimit -n 1000   
root at frosties:~# ulimit -n 10000000
limit: setrlimit failed: operation not permitted
root at 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>

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		Kind regards, Axel
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