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How is the fsize limit enforced for root?

  • 1.  How is the fsize limit enforced for root?

    Posted Tue March 27, 2018 09:43 AM

    Originally posted by: Ken Dyck


    How is the fsize limit enforced for the root user, if at all? I'm seeing the following under bash: 

    [root@AIXDEV ~]# ulimit -f 2000000
[root@AIXDEV ~]# ulimit -f
2000000
[root@AIXDEV ~]# lmktemp file.temp 1073741824
file.temp
[root@AIXDEV ~]# du file.temp
2097160 file.temp

    The new file clearly exceeds the limit (2097160 > 2000000). Is this expected?


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  • 2.  Re: How is the fsize limit enforced for root?

    Posted Wed March 28, 2018 09:18 AM

    Originally posted by: AncientAIXer


    I have never known them to be enforced and I would be very surprised if they were.  Otherwise, many system processes may not work properly.


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