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ulimit - get and set user limits

Attributes

       For an explanation of the terms used in this section, see attributes(7).
       ┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┬───────────────┬─────────┐
       │ InterfaceAttributeValue   │
       ├─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┼───────────────┼─────────┤
       │ ulimit()                                                                    │ Thread safety │ MT-Safe │
       └─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┴───────────────┴─────────┘

Description

       Warning:  this  routine  is  obsolete.   Use getrlimit(2), setrlimit(2), and sysconf(3) instead.  For the
       shell command ulimit, see bash(1).

       The ulimit() call will get or set some limit for the calling process.  The cmd argument can have  one  of
       the following values.

       UL_GETFSIZE
              Return the limit on the size of a file, in units of 512 bytes.

       UL_SETFSIZE
              Set the limit on the size of a file.

       3      (Not implemented for Linux.)  Return the maximum possible address of the data segment.

       4      (Implemented  but  no  symbolic  constant  provided.)  Return the maximum number of files that the
              calling process can open.

Errors

EPERM  An unprivileged process tried to increase a limit.

History

       SVr4, POSIX.1-2001.  POSIX.1-2008 marks it as obsolete.

Library

       Standard C library (libc, -lc)

Name

       ulimit - get and set user limits

Return Value

       On success, ulimit() returns a nonnegative value.  On error, -1 is returned, and errno is set to indicate
       the error.

See Also

bash(1), getrlimit(2), setrlimit(2), sysconf(3)

Linux man-pages 6.9.1                              2024-05-02                                          ulimit(3)

Standards

       POSIX.1-2008.

Synopsis

#include<ulimit.h>[[deprecated]]longulimit(intcmd,longnewlimit);

See Also