Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!rutgers!ames!ucbcad!ucbvax!decvax!decwrl!sun!imagen!SofPasuk From: SofPasuk@imagen.UUCP (Munach Rvi'i) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: ulimit considered braindamaged ? Message-ID: <752@imagen.UUCP> Date: Thu, 8-Jan-87 18:00:11 EST Article-I.D.: imagen.752 Posted: Thu Jan 8 18:00:11 1987 Date-Received: Fri, 9-Jan-87 22:48:02 EST References: <790@maynard.BSW.COM> <166@herman.UUCP> <10943@sun.uucp> <1607@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com> Organization: Tohu VaVohu Lines: 16 Keywords: ulimit SysV irksome Summary: Regen is insufficient! In article <1607@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com>, ekrell@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com (Eduardo Krell) writes: > In System V Release 3, ULIMIT is a tunable parameter that can be changed > (and then a new kernel can be made) without sources. > 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. This is just another example of what happens when operating system design is performed by persons who do not understand how real world computer systems are used (i.e., where commercial applications programs are run and possibly developed by non-computer-nerd, real world people). No wonder AT&T is having problems selling their concept of computers and software ...