ulimit (was: getty/login for callback)

[Seth Robertson]

In article <10065 at smoke.BRL.MIL> gwyn at brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn) writes:
|In article <19516 at genrad.UUCP> jpn at genrad.genrad.COM (John P. Nelson) writes:
||Despite the tone, I really would be happy if someone could demonstrate
||a useful purpose for "ulimit".
|
|It's great for testing whether your application recovers gracefully from
|"file system full"-like conditions!

There's a *much* better way to determine in your application recovers
gracefully from "file system full"-like conditions, and thats to fill
up your file system.  I don't know about you, but I've never had *any*
problem testing that condition (whether I wanted to or not!)

					-Seth
					 seth at ctr.columbia.edu