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

[Thilo Six]

Hello Daniel,

Daniel Shahaf schrieb/wrote:

>> Now if unlimit would instead evaluate the maximum physical possible size for
>> that limit and activate that, i would say nice.
> 
> Managing system resources is the OS's job, not zsh's.  I suggest you
> look into configuring your OS to set the hard limit as a function of the
> available hardware.  Then, calling 'unlimit' in zsh will behave as you
> expect (without any code changes to zsh or to your zsh script).

Ahh that sounds like the one missing puzzle piece that would glue it all
together. I will dig this up.

>> question:
>> Something i was not be able to 100% verify up to now, but i guess from what i
>> read so far that input size on shell prompt relates to stack size in terms of
>> rlimit?
>>
> 
> The stack contains function call frames.  The input to the shell would
> be allocated on the heap, not on the stack.

I am not sure i will be able to make any sense for my self out of this. But i
will try. Currently i am running a bit out of time. So this will take a larger
timeframe then the past few days.

> Hence, it would be affected
> by the memory allocation limits, not by the stack size limits.

Thanks for the hint. This will help.

Again Thanks Daniel for taking the time to shed some light on this.

@Axel:
At this point i tend to agree that this bug here is invalid. As the discussion
here has culminated some "behind the scenes" it might still be good a idea to
add a pointer towards here for others. Here is hope that someone else will find
it useful.
What is the correct status to set on this issue here? Closed or wont fix?
I suspect rather the former then the latter?

Thanks!


kind regards,

     Thilo