Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!lll-lcc!ames!ucbcad!ucbvax!decvax!decwrl!sun!gorodish!guy From: guy%gorodish@Sun.COM (Guy Harris) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: ulimit considered braindamaged ? Message-ID: <10943@sun.uucp> Date: Mon, 5-Jan-87 03:40:59 EST Article-I.D.: sun.10943 Posted: Mon Jan 5 03:40:59 1987 Date-Received: Mon, 5-Jan-87 18:45:53 EST References: <790@maynard.BSW.COM> <166@herman.UUCP> Sender: news@sun.uucp Lines: 12 Keywords: ulimit SysV irksome > 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").