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From: guy%gorodish@Sun.COM (Guy Harris)
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Subject: Re: ulimit considered braindamaged ?
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Date: Mon, 5-Jan-87 03:40:59 EST
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Posted: Mon Jan  5 03:40:59 1987
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> You can change the system-wide default value for ulimit by, assuming of
> course that you have a source code license, changing a constant in the
> unix source and simply recompiling.  I believe the constant is called
> MAXWRITE or something like that.

Nothing so straightforward; it's called CDLIMIT.

One hopes that in S5R3 they've at least come to their senses to the extent
of making it a constant tunable without source (one *could* hope they
realize that the "ulimit" scheme is the wrong solution, implement quotas
instead, and either crank the default ulimit up to 2^31-1 or set it to 0 and
have that mean "no limit").