Ulimit on Sys V/AT?

[Jay "you ignorant splut!" Maynard]

In article <267 at opel.UUCP> johnk at opel.UUCP (John Kennedy) writes:
>I'm sure this has been worked into the ground, but is there
>not a kernel location that can be patched on Sys V/AT 2.4
>that increases the ulimit across the board?

Yup. It's called ulpatch. By default, it's 1228800 bytes (2400 512-byte
blocks):
Script started Thu Aug 24 06:25:08 1989
(114) root at splut:/: patch /unix.2.4.0 ulpatch
0x960

You can increase  it (or decrease it, though I have no idea why you'd
want to) by using /etc/patch to change this value, as I've done to my
system:
(115) root at splut:/: patch /system5 ulpatch
0x7fff
This runs it up to 16 MB - which oughtta be enough. (I don't know if
this is a signed number or not, or if it's a short or a long - anyone
out there know more?) Just say,
patch /system5 ulpatch 0x7fff
and reboot. If you wanna save yourself the boot, just reissue the same
command, adding the -k switch to patch kernel memory.

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