Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!brl-adm!brl-smoke!gwyn From: gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn ) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: ulimit considered braindamaged ? Message-ID: <5503@brl-smoke.ARPA> Date: Fri, 9-Jan-87 14:11:32 EST Article-I.D.: brl-smok.5503 Posted: Fri Jan 9 14:11:32 1987 Date-Received: Mon, 12-Jan-87 21:52:28 EST References: <790@maynard.BSW.COM> <166@herman.UUCP> <10943@sun.uucp> <1607@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com> <752@imagen.UUCP> Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB)) Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD. Lines: 11 Keywords: ulimit SysV irksome In article <752@imagen.UUCP> SofPasuk@imagen.UUCP (Munach Rvi'i) writes: >This is just another example of what happens when operating system design is >performed by persons who do not understand how real world computer systems are >used (i.e., where commercial applications programs are run and possibly >developed by non-computer-nerd, real world people). No wonder AT&T is having >problems selling their concept of computers and software ... I don't know "where you're coming from", but it is perhaps instructive to observe that ulimit was introduced by the real-world, commercially- oriented people inside AT&T. Those whom you would probably (unjustly) brand as "computer nerds" knew better.