Originální popis anglicky:
ulimit - set or report file size limit
Návod, kniha: POSIX Programmer's Manual
ulimit [-f][blocks]
The
ulimit utility shall set or report the file-size writing limit
imposed on files written by the shell and its child processes (files of any
size may be read). Only a process with appropriate privileges can increase the
limit.
The
ulimit utility shall conform to the Base Definitions volume of
IEEE Std 1003.1-2001, Section 12.2, Utility Syntax Guidelines.
The following option shall be supported:
- -f
- Set (or report, if no blocks operand is present),
the file size limit in blocks. The -f option shall also be the
default case.
The following operand shall be supported:
- blocks
- The number of 512-byte blocks to use as the new file size
limit.
Not used.
None.
The following environment variables shall affect the execution of
ulimit:
- LANG
- Provide a default value for the internationalization
variables that are unset or null. (See the Base Definitions volume of
IEEE Std 1003.1-2001, Section 8.2, Internationalization
Variables for the precedence of internationalization variables used to
determine the values of locale categories.)
- LC_ALL
- If set to a non-empty string value, override the values of
all the other internationalization variables.
- LC_CTYPE
- Determine the locale for the interpretation of sequences of
bytes of text data as characters (for example, single-byte as opposed to
multi-byte characters in arguments).
- LC_MESSAGES
- Determine the locale that should be used to affect the
format and contents of diagnostic messages written to standard error.
- NLSPATH
- Determine the location of message catalogs for the
processing of LC_MESSAGES .
Default.
The standard output shall be used when no
blocks operand is present. If
the current number of blocks is limited, the number of blocks in the current
limit shall be written in the following format:
"%d\n", <number of 512-byte blocks>
If there is no current limit on the number of blocks, in the POSIX locale the
following format shall be used:
The standard error shall be used only for diagnostic messages.
None.
None.
The following exit values shall be returned:
- 0
- Successful completion.
- >0
- A request for a higher limit was rejected or an error
occurred.
Default.
The following sections are informative.
Since
ulimit affects the current shell execution environment, it is
always provided as a shell regular built-in. If it is called in a separate
utility execution environment, such as one of the following:
nohup ulimit -f 10000
env ulimit 10000
it does not affect the file size limit of the caller's environment.
Once a limit has been decreased by a process, it cannot be increased (unless
appropriate privileges are involved), even back to the original system limit.
Set the file size limit to 51200 bytes:
None.
None.
The System Interfaces volume of IEEE Std 1003.1-2001,
ulimit()
Portions of this text are reprinted and reproduced in electronic form from IEEE
Std 1003.1, 2003 Edition, Standard for Information Technology -- Portable
Operating System Interface (POSIX), The Open Group Base Specifications Issue
6, Copyright (C) 2001-2003 by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics
Engineers, Inc and The Open Group. In the event of any discrepancy between
this version and the original IEEE and The Open Group Standard, the original
IEEE and The Open Group Standard is the referee document. The original
Standard can be obtained online at http://www.opengroup.org/unix/online.html
.
