ulimit (was: getty/login for callback)

[SuperUser]

In article <829 at twwells.uucp>, bill at twwells.uucp (T. William Wells) writes:
> In article <1423 at cunixc.cc.columbia.edu> seth at ctr.columbia.edu (Seth Robertson) writes:
> : In article <10065 at smoke.BRL.MIL> gwyn at brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn) writes:
> : |It's great for testing whether your application recovers gracefully from
> : |"file system full"-like conditions!
> > [no, fill a file system]
> I suspect that there are very few environments where it is reasonable
> to fill up file systems just because you want to test out "file
> system full" checking.

However, using ulimit() to test that makes it harder to discover that your
application recovers from that by creating another file and logging a message
to it.

If you aren't going to buy enough hardware to properly test your software,
why bother with testing at all?
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