Re: Max size of data in C++ prog?

[Jerome BENOIT <jgmbenoit@wanadoo.fr>]

Hello,

Paul E Condon wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 19, 2004 at 08:06:47AM -0600, John Hasler wrote:
>
> > I wrote:
> >
> > > The man page is in passwd but there seems to be no actual limits file.
> >
> > Allan writes:
> >
> > > manpages-posix: /usr/share/man/man1/ulimit.1posix.gz
> > > manpages-dev: /usr/share/man/man3/ulimit.3.gz
> > > manpages-posix-dev: /usr/share/man/man7/ulimit.h.7posix.gz
> > > manpages-posix-dev: /usr/share/man/man3/ulimit.3posix.gz
> >
> > > From the limits man page:
> >
> >     The limits file (/etc/limits by default or LIMITS_FILE defined
> >       config.h) describes the resource limits you wish to impose.  It
> >       should be owned by root and readable by root account only.
> >
> > That is the limits file to which I referred.
> > --
> > John Hasler
>
>
> > From my computer, which is tracking Sarge:
>
> big:net# ls /etc/lim*
> ls: /etc/lim*: No such file or directory
> big:net#
>
> What was not loaded during dist-upgrade from Woody?

on my Sarge box,
there is a /etc/security/limits.conf file
which has a man page (man limits.conf)

hth,
Jerome