Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!sundc!nears!occrsh!occrsh.UUCP!gorgo.UUCP!authorplaceholder From: bsteve@gorgo.UUCP Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: ulimit considered braindamaged Message-ID: <58900005@gorgo.UUCP> Date: Mon, 12-Jan-87 02:49:00 EST Article-I.D.: gorgo.58900005 Posted: Mon Jan 12 02:49:00 1987 Date-Received: Tue, 13-Jan-87 20:36:22 EST References: <11012@sun.uucp> Lines: 21 Nf-ID: #R:sun.uucp:-1101200:gorgo.UUCP:58900005:000:910 Nf-From: gorgo.UUCP!bsteve Jan 12 01:49:00 1987 guy@gorodish writes in comp.unix.questions: >Sticking this into the kernel without making it a configurable parameter >*is* senseless; the complaints that surface periodically on the net about >this should be sufficient evidence of that. I agree... Of course the real question was with regard to how one deals with a wired-in ulimit that is too small. The most obvious way to crank it up at boot time is to build a surrogate version of /etc/init that makes a call to ulimit and then exec's the real init. It shouldn't be necessary to do anything else to make the default ulimit a different size. I haven't used this method. I cheated by changing the init source, the make for init is alot quicker than the make for the kernel :-) Steve Blasingame (all around bad guy) bsteve@eris.berkeley.edu ihnp4!occrsh!gorgo!bsteve /* Don't stick your hand out so far or it might go home in another car */