ulimit (was: getty/login for callback)
Seth Robertson
sethr at cunixc.cc.columbia.edu
Wed Apr 19 03:18:21 AEST 1989
In article <10065 at smoke.BRL.MIL> gwyn at brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn) writes:
|In article <19516 at genrad.UUCP> jpn at genrad.genrad.COM (John P. Nelson) writes:
||Despite the tone, I really would be happy if someone could demonstrate
||a useful purpose for "ulimit".
|
|It's great for testing whether your application recovers gracefully from
|"file system full"-like conditions!
There's a *much* better way to determine in your application recovers
gracefully from "file system full"-like conditions, and thats to fill
up your file system. I don't know about you, but I've never had *any*
problem testing that condition (whether I wanted to or not!)
-Seth
seth at ctr.columbia.edu
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