[Pkg-zsh-devel] Bug#807836: Bug#807836: Bug#807836: builtin unlimit leads to "xargs: invalid number for -s"

[Daniel Shahaf]

Thilo Six wrote on Wed, Dec 30, 2015 at 17:12:17 +0100:
> The manpage says (as mentioned earlier):
>       unlimit [ -hs ] resource ...
>               The resource limit for each resource is set to the  hard  limit.
> 
> Again "hard limit" by its own is as ambiguous as "unlimited".
> 

The intended meaning of "hard limit" in this context is "the value of
the 'rlim_max' member of 'struct rlimit'".  The getrlimit(2) man page
(and its POSIX spec) use that term with the same meaning.

> So as i said above, the definition of "hard limit" should be explicit in the man
> page, e.g.:
> The resource limit for each resource is set to the hard limit, that is ...

Maybe.  I honestly don't have an opinion — I don't find the man page
ambiguous in the first place ☺.

Cheers,

Daniel