Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2006 07:46:21 GMT From: "Dr. Markus Waldeck" <waldeck@gmx.de> To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: docs/100196: man login.conf does explain not "unlimited" Message-ID: <200607130746.k6D7kLS9081355@www.freebsd.org> Resent-Message-ID: <200607130750.k6D7oJMa048170@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 100196 >Category: docs >Synopsis: man login.conf does explain not "unlimited" >Confidential: no >Severity: non-critical >Priority: medium >Responsible: freebsd-doc >State: open >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: doc-bug >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Thu Jul 13 07:50:19 GMT 2006 >Closed-Date: >Last-Modified: >Originator: Dr. Markus Waldeck >Release: 6.1 >Organization: >Environment: >Description: The examples in /etc/login.conf use two possible values for "unlimited" (unlimited and infinity). A look in the source code (usr.bin/limits/limits.c, Revision 1.14, line 497 - 500) reveals that there a FOUR possible values to express unlimited: - inf - infinity - unlimit - unlimited Unfortunately there is no explanation in man login.conf at all. >How-To-Repeat: man login.conf >Fix: Add the explanation. >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted:
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