Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!lll-lcc!ames!ucbcad!ucbvax!ulysses!ekrell From: ekrell@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com (Eduardo Krell) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: ulimit considered braindamaged ? Message-ID: <1637@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com> Date: Sat, 10-Jan-87 11:22:33 EST Article-I.D.: ulysses.1637 Posted: Sat Jan 10 11:22:33 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 10-Jan-87 22:52:45 EST References: <790@maynard.BSW.COM> <166@herman.UUCP> <10943@sun.uucp> <1607@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com> <752@imagen.UUCP> Reply-To: ekrell@ulysses.UUCP (Eduardo Krell) Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill Lines: 19 Keywords: ulimit SysV irksome In article <752@imagen.UUCP> SofPasuk@imagen.UUCP (Munach Rvi'i) writes: > >Regen of the system is totally almost totally useless in application shops. To >require that the system be brought "down" and that a new kernel be relinked is >absurd - If there are to be user-oriented "limits" as part of the system, the >default and/or system-wide maximum should be dynamically setable by the >system administrator via command. > Sure enough. There is a system call to change the ulimit (you have to be the super-user). the korn-shell provides a built-in "ulimit" command to make it even easier. How you would use this feature to raise everyone's ulimit is left as an exercise to the reader. -- Eduardo Krell AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill {ihnp4,seismo,ucbvax}!ulysses!ekrell