Sorry for the noise. My fault. Shadow-4.1.4.3 is working normally. I've been using slim http://slim.berlios.de/ as a login manager run from a bootscript run by init and it seems that it is not setting the limits. If I login at the command prompt shadow sets the limits. The reason I thought shadow-4.0.18.1 was working and shadow-4.1.4.3 wasn't was because when I built the system with shadow-4.0.18.1 I tested it at the command prompt before I built xorg. Sorry for the noise. Mea culpa.
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