Re: getrlimit standards

[Daniel Quinlan <quinlan@transmeta.com>]

Andrew Josey <ajosey@rdg.opengroup.org> writes:

> [in Unix 98]
> RLIMIT_FSIZE
>    This is the maximum size of a file in bytes that may be created by
>    a process. If a write or truncate operation would cause this limit
>    to be exceeded, SIGXFSZ is generated for the thread. If the thread
>    is blocking, or the process is catching or ignoring SIGXFSZ,
>    continued attempts to increase the size of a file from end-of-file
>    to beyond the limit will fail with errno set to [EFBIG].

Is "maximum size of a file in bytes" the file length or the number of
bytes consumed on the physical media?

- Dan