Hi,

> Yeah, I wondered about that, never used ulimits so I was not aware how
> they worked, i.e. via the environment.  Quite right it's a shell

Well, I meant environment as a more general term, not any environment
variables, i.e. the environment the process runs in (its open files, its
address space etc., yes, including the environment variables as well).

> script.  I guess maybe the Sun people would make the bogus argument
> that it's nice for csh users to be able to "ulimit -a", same with
> reporting aliases.

While the former (reporint ulimit) will work when called from a csh, the
latter (reporting aliases) will not, as the aliases are _only_ within the
data area of the shell.

Hope it helps.

Ciao,
Wolfgang
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