Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!cmcl2!yale!husc6!rutgers!clyde!cbatt!cwruecmp!hal!ncoast!tdi2!brandon From: brandon@tdi2.UUCP (Brandon Allbery) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: ulimit considered braindamaged ? Message-ID: <130@tdi2.UUCP> Date: Sun, 11-Jan-87 21:24:47 EST Article-I.D.: tdi2.130 Posted: Sun Jan 11 21:24:47 1987 Date-Received: Tue, 13-Jan-87 01:19:59 EST References: <790@maynard.BSW.COM> <196@devon.UUCP> Reply-To: brandon@tdi2.UUCP (Brandon Allbery) Followup-To: comp.unix.questions Organization: Tridelta Industries, Inc., Mentor, OH Lines: 23 Quoted from <196@devon.UUCP> ["Re: ulimit considered braindamaged ?"], by paul@devon.UUCP (Paul Sutcliffe Jr.)... +--------------- | It's also interesting to note that _any_ process running as set[e]uid | root does not adhere to the ulimit value (e.g. can write to any size | file). +--------------- Not under AT&T System V.2. I once managed to screw up our Plexus by assuming that v.v_cdlimit was unsigned and patching it to (1<<31) -- which promptly failed spectacularly when I tried to go multiuser. I ended up using the shell ulimit command (I am glad that I refuse to use the Plexus-supplied csh on the root login -- no ulimit command!) to set my ulimit to something reasonable, then re-patching the kernel for (1<<30) and rebooting. ++Brandon -- ``for is he not of the Children of Luthien? Never shall that line fail, though the years may lengthen beyond count.'' --J. R. R. Tolkien Brandon S. Allbery UUCP: cbatt!cwruecmp!ncoast!tdi2!brandon Tridelta Industries, Inc. CSNET: ncoast!allbery@Case 7350 Corporate Blvd. INTERNET: ncoast!allbery%Case.CSNET@relay.CS.NET Mentor, Ohio 44060 PHONE: +1 216 255 1080 (home) +1 216 974 9210