Fwd: Bug#975325: dash(1) man page: ulimit documentation is inconsistent and out-of-date

["Andrej Shadura" <andrew@xxxxxxxxxx>]

----- Original message -----
From: Vincent Lefevre <vincent@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Bug#975325: dash(1) man page: ulimit documentation is inconsistent and out-of-date
Date: Friday, 20 November 2020 14:54

Package: dash
Version: 0.5.11+git20200708+dd9ef66-2
Severity: normal

In the ulimit documentation from the dash(1) man page:

     ulimit [-H | -S] [-a | -tfdscmlpnv [value]]
[...]
            -r          show or set the limit on the real-time scheduling
                        priority of a process

The -r option is not listed in the synopsis, but described anyway.
However, it is not supported:

$ ulimit -r
sh: 17: ulimit: Illegal option -r

Moreover, the -w option is supported:

$ ulimit -w
unlimited

but neither given in the synopsis, nor described.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: bullseye/sid
  APT prefers unstable-debug
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 5.9.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU threads)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE, TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=POSIX, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages dash depends on:
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]  1.5.74
ii  debianutils            4.11.2
ii  dpkg                   1.20.5
ii  libc6                  2.31-4

dash recommends no packages.

dash suggests no packages.

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