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

[Peter Stephenson]

On Wed, 15 Oct 2014 19:49:13 -0700
Bart Schaefer <schaefer at brasslantern.com> wrote:
> This could also be fixed by having bin_ulimit read back the actual limit
> after a failure to set the hard limit and store that instead of keeping
> the "desired" hard limit around and trying to change it again.

I think that would be preferable --- I noted after the last ulimit query
(zsh-workers/33363, about a different implementation oddity) that this
looked potentially confusing.

pws