The following reply was made to PR bin/31377; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Simon Gerraty <sjg@juniper.net>
To: Frederick Bruckman <fredb@immanent.net>
Cc: gnats-bugs@netbsd.org
Subject: Re: bin/31377: ksh: cannot set limit indicated by ulimit -H 
Date: Mon, 09 Oct 2006 15:39:03 -0700

 Sounds reasonable.
 
 Thanks
 --sjg
 
 On Sun, 8 Oct 2006 19:05:06 -0500 (CDT), Frederick Bruckman wri
 tes:
 >Hi,
 >
 >The problem seems to be that rlim_t is a "quad_t" (i.e., 64-bi
 >ts), 
 >while pdksh's evaluate() only works for "long" (which is, of c
 >ourse, 
 >only 32-bits on i386). I suggest that the right fix is to "pro
 >mote" 
 >evaluate() to 64-bits, adjusting all of its callers, as below.
 >..
 >