Re: cvs rdiff -t consistently crashes with SEGV when processing files

[Larry Jones]

Derek Robert Price writes:
> 
> Thanks Larry.  I'd tried all that, plus `man -k core', and hadn't found 
> anything, but you prompted me to search for RedHat Linux specific info. 
>  Turns out the fix was `ulimit -c <big number>'.  Apparently ulimit can 
> limit the size of generated core files and it has a default limit of 0 
> on my system.  This might be an artifact of Bash 2, or at least RH's 
> distribution of Bash 2.

Oh, yeah, resource limits.  Completely slipped my mind.  They're almost
certainly not a function of the shell, it just provides a capability for
reporting and setting them.  There are usually system defaults that are
compiled in to the kernel or set in some kind of kernel configuration
file and it's fairly common for login to override them for interactive
users.  My system has /etc/login.conf that specifies a bunch of stuff
like default $PATH, resource limits, etc. for different classes of
users.  You may find the man pages for login and getrlimit (or ``man -k
limit'' if that doesn't exist) to be informative.

-Larry Jones

I've got more brains than I know what to do with. -- Calvin