mail and disk quotas

John Pierce jwp at sdchema.UUCP
Sun Dec 2 15:17:39 AEST 1984


In article <6183 at brl-tgr.ARPA> God <root%bostonu.csnet at csnet-relay.arpa> writes:

 > 	The mail spool is a particular nuisance as other users can
 > 	force someone over quota by blasting mail at them.
 > 	I haven't had it happen here but I would assume that
 > 	mail starts falling off the floor.

This can be fixed trivially in src/bin/mail.c with setrlimit(2).  The most
difficult part is finding the setrlimit(2) document in your manual.  It is,
of course, on the getrlimit(2) page (like where else did you *expect* it to
be, man?).

				John Pierce, Chemistry, UC San Diego
				{decvax,sdcsvax}!sdchema!jwp



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