Re: getrlimit standards

[Andrew Josey <ajosey@rdg.opengroup.org>]

On Oct 16,  1:03am in "Re: getrlimit standa", Daniel Quinlan wrote:
> 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.......
>
> Is "maximum size of a file in bytes" the file length or the number of
> bytes consumed on the physical media?

My reading is that this refers to the file length ,
rather than actual disk  consumption  if its a sparse file or say you have
a file system supporting another compression technique.

regards
Andrew