Re: [PATCH] find RLIM_NLIMITS correctly on Cygwin

["Daniel Shahaf" <d.s@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jun T wrote on Mon, 13 Jan 2020 11:00 +00:00:
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> > 2020/01/12 5:15, Daniel Shahaf <d.s@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > 
> > The part that's not clear to me is how we'd even know that «8» is a valid value for
> > the first actual argument to getrlimit().  Currently, the code assumes that the
> > values of RLIMIT_* macros are consecutive small integers, but that is not guaranteed
> > by any standard, is it?
> 
> There is no guarantee, but current version of ulimit builtin accepts any number
> for -N (and output error). limit builtin accepts only the resource name,
> and maybe we accept "unknonw8" only for getrlimit() but not for setrlimit()?

Sorry, I don't follow.  Why shouldn't we accept "unknown8" in the limit-setting syntaxes?