ulimit considered braindamaged ?

[Guy Harris]

> 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.

The "ulimit" is a default, not a system-wide, maximum.  As such, there's not
much that command can really do.  It wouldn't have any effect on processes
that have already been started.  The most that could be done would be to
set the "ulimit" when a user logs in, and have the value it's set to be the
value set by this command.