Re: Unixware 2.1.2/Informix Online 7.23: Online won't boot: ulimit '-s': mystery error

In article <352DCB74.D3AA3D35@echonyc.com>, Cosmo Lee <*NO-SPAM*cosmo@echonyc.com> wrote: >[.........] >re: SCO > >I disagree with your opinion on SCO's responsibility. If they are to include >a man page for `ulimit`, it makes no sense to document only a single option >(-f) of many, and omit all the other ones as if they don't exist. This is >surely misleading. How is one to even know that other options exist? Why >should one have to look in multiple places to find all the options? Is one to >assume for every command that somewhere, some place else, there are other >options floating around which are not shown in the man entry? Then what's the >point of having a *reference* manual? Either put all the options on the >`ulimit` man page, or don't put them there at all ,and write "see options >under ksh93". >[.........] Well, the "ulimit" program is actually just a shell script that uses the "ulimit" shell builtin command. (more /usr/bin/ulimit) Shell builtin commands aren't normally documented in man pages at all. The proper place to look for documentation on "ulimit" would be in the shell's man page. I see full info on ulimit in "man sh". Why they chose to create a man page for it at all is the real question. Or why they mentioned "-f" and nothing else. -- Bob Farmer ucs_brf@unx1.shsu.edu University Computer Services, Sam Houston State Univ. (409)294-3547