Re: [PATCH] man: Document ulimit -v

[Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jérémie Courrèges-Anglas <jca@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Gioele Barabucci <gioele@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
> 
>> Document that `ulimit` can set the `RLIMIT_AS` limit (virtual memory) with
>> the `-v` flag.
> 
> I don't know much about RLIMIT_AS, but I know that it isn't supported on
> all systems where dash runs, eg OpenBSD.  Maybe is it Linux-specific?
> 
> Anyway, it would be better if the manpage said that the -v flag may not
> be implemented on all platforms.
> 
> The same could be said about ulimit -w. (I did not check the other flags).

Rather than doing that we could just pass the manpage through
cpp or some similar mechanism so that this becomes conditional.

Cheers,
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