ulimit

Doug Gwyn gwyn at smoke.BRL.MIL
Sun Apr 23 10:13:04 AEST 1989


In article <17042 at mimsy.UUCP> chris at mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek) writes:
>The default file size limit should be `unlimited'; sysadmins should
>be able to raise and lower it, and users should be able to lower it.

I don't know why ordinary users should be prohibited from raising
their own per-file size limit.  "ulimit" is not a quota system.



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