ulimit value when output is "hard" or "soft"

Question

Can someone explain to me how can I determine actual values of for ulimit when the output of ulimit command is "hard" or "soft". This is on AIX machine. For example:

# ulimit -f
hard

And on another machine:

$ ulimit -m
soft

Since i don't have root access on this machines how can I know what are the exact values for this limits?

bash. I just tried ksh, and in this the limit is correctly displayed. Why is bash different? — CyberMuz, Jul 28 '14 at 09:19
bash doesn't behave like that on Ubuntu. What does `type ulimit` say? — kasperd, Jul 28 '14 at 09:25
Which version of bash? The standard AIX IBM version of bash works fine. What do you get from `which bash` — EightBitTony, Aug 18 '14 at 08:23

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Aug 18 '14 at 08:30

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There's something odd about your bash. Are you sure you don't have either an alias for ulimit, or a non-IBM AIX version of bash?

$ which bash
/usr/bin/bash
$ bash
$ oslevel -s
6100-08-01-1245
$ ulimit -f
unlimited
$ ulimit -m
32768

answered Aug 18 '14 at 08:30

EightBitTony

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