ulimit (was: getty/login for callback)
T. William Wells
bill at twwells.uucp
Tue Apr 18 15:02:51 AEST 1989
In article <628 at eecea.eece.ksu.edu> terry at eecea.eece.ksu.edu (Terry Hull) writes:
: It is designed to keep processes from accidentally filling up file
: systems. Here is an example: I write a program that does a few
: calculations and writes the results to a disk file. The program is
: supposed to terminate after 100 iterations, but I forget to increment
: the counter on the way through the loop. The program ends up going
: through 1,000,000 iterations. I do not even notice because I am
: running the process in the background. With no ulimit, I can fill
: up a file system totally by accident.
This is what I heard, also. But it fails to explain why increasing
ones ulimit is restricted to root. If ulimit is only a safety belt,
there isn't any good reason for preventing one from tightening or
loosening it as needed.
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