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[Mark Mitchell]

There is no way to use `ulimit' to set RLIMIT_AS under GNU/Linux.

Configuration Information [Automatically generated, do not change]:
Machine: i386
OS: Linux
Compiler: gcc
Compilation CFLAGS:   -DHAVE_VFPRINTF -DHAVE_UNISTD_H -DHAVE_STDLIB_H 
-DHAVE_LIMITS_H        -DHAVE_GETGROUPS -DHAVE_RESOURCE -DHAVE_SYS_PARAM 
-DVOID_SIGHANDLER -DHAVE_GETDTABLESIZE -DHAVE_BCOPY -DHAVE_GETPW_DECLS 
-DHAVE_GETHOSTNAME -DHAVE_WAIT_H         -DHAVE_DUP2 -DHAVE_STRERROR  
-DHAVE_DIRENT_H -DHAVE_STRING_H        -DHAVE_VARARGS_H -DHAVE_STRCHR  
-DHAVE_DEV_FD        -Di386 -DLinux -DSHELL -DHAVE_ALLOCA -DHAVE_ALLOCA_H       
-O2 -m486 -fno-strength-reduce
uname output: Linux dumbledore.codesourcery.com 2.2.16-3smp #1 SMP Mon Jun 19 
19:00:35 EDT 2000 i686 unknown

Bash Version: 1.14
Patch Level: 7

Description:

The RLIMIT_AS resource limit (which is the limit Linux uses to prevent
too much meomry from being allocated to a single process) can't be
set with the ulimit builtin.

Repeat-By:

Fix:

I'd be willing to take a whack at a patch, but I'm not sure where to send
it.  Who is maintaining bash these days?