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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
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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
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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.
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    Eduardo Krell                   AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill

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