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strange behaviour with ulimit on Mac OS X 10.6

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I get some very strange behaviour when working with ulimit. I just open up a new shell Ok, that seems to be the default even thou I set the limit on files within /etc/launchd.conf to be unlimit. But that is another question for another day. Now I increase the number of files to 1024 and let have a …

Error Output

Hector:~ robertj$ ulimit -a
core file size          (blocks, -c) 0
data seg size           (kbytes, -d) unlimited
file size               (blocks, -f…

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Fix for: strange behaviour with ulimit on Mac OS X 10.6

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There are two things confusing you. The first is that there are both hard and soft limits for each resource. sets both of them, but only shows the soft limit. Once the hard limit is set, it can only be decreased. The second thing that's confusing yo…

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