ulimit (was: getty/login for callback)
David A. Wilson
dave at sea375.UUCP
Thu Apr 27 12:55:23 AEST 1989
>From article <4428 at ihuxz.ATT.COM>, by burris at ihuxz.ATT.COM (Burris):
> The ulimit has NOTHING to do with the assumption that users are stupid
> or malicious. It DOES however assume that people make mistakes. Do you
> know any programmer who has NEVER hacked up a quick program with an
> infinate loop?
Ulimit doesn't help at all if your infinite loop creates another file
on each pass. You could run out of inodes too!
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David A. Wilson
uw-beaver!tikal!slab!sea375!dave
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