ulimit considered braindamaged ?

[Brandon Allbery]

Quoted from <196 at devon.UUCP> ["Re: ulimit considered braindamaged ?"], by paul at devon.UUCP (Paul Sutcliffe Jr.)...
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| It's also interesting to note that _any_ process running as set[e]uid
| root does not adhere to the ulimit value (e.g. can write to any size
| file).  
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Not under AT&T System V.2.  I once managed to screw up our Plexus by assuming
that v.v_cdlimit was unsigned and patching it to (1<<31) -- which promptly
failed spectacularly when I tried to go multiuser.  I ended up using the shell
ulimit command (I am glad that I refuse to use the Plexus-supplied csh on the
root login -- no ulimit command!) to set my ulimit to something reasonable,
then re-patching the kernel for (1<<30) and rebooting.

++Brandon
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