ulimit considered braindamaged

[bsteve at gorgo.UUCP]

guy at gorodish writes in comp.unix.questions:

>Sticking this into the kernel without making it a configurable parameter
>*is* senseless; the complaints that surface periodically on the net about
>this should be sufficient evidence of that.

I agree... Of course the real question was with regard to how one deals
with a wired-in ulimit that is too small. The most obvious way to crank
it up at boot time is to build a surrogate version of /etc/init that
makes a call to ulimit and then exec's the real init. It shouldn't be
necessary to do anything else to make the default ulimit a different size.

I haven't used this method. I cheated by changing the init source, the make
for init is alot quicker than the make for the kernel :-)

    Steve Blasingame (all around bad guy)
    bsteve at eris.berkeley.edu
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