Re: ulimit and ssh?

[Greg Wooledge]

On Tue, Sep 08, 2009 at 11:39:02AM -0700, peter360 wrote:
> Thanks for the explanation.   So my understanding of the way ssh works is
> still incorrect.  I am confused about at which point the two parameters,
> "-c" and "ulimit -a" were converted into three, "-c", "ulimit", and "-a".  I
> guess I need to read the source of ssh and bash to really understand this...

It's an ssh "feature" for backward compatibility with remsh/rsh.

imadev:~$ $HOME/bin/args 'ulimit -a'
1 args: 'ulimit -a'
imadev:~$ remsh localhost $HOME/bin/args 'ulimit -a'
2 args: 'ulimit' '-a'
imadev:~$ ssh localhost $HOME/bin/args 'ulimit -a'
wooledg@localhost's password: 
2 args: 'ulimit' '-a'