ulimit considered braindamaged ?

[Eduardo Krell]

In article <752 at imagen.UUCP> SofPasuk at 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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