limits

[Moderator, John Quarterman]

>From seismo!philabs!flkvax!trwrb!desint!geoff (Geoff Kuenning)
Date: Thu, 14 Nov 85 23:47:29 GMT

I support the idea of making the limits available at run-time, but
let's not copy Berkeley's naming (getdlimit or whatever it is).  There
should be just *one* call that gets all the limits into a struct;
Berkeley compatability can be achieved with "wrapper" routines.

UniSoft has already done 90% of the work of this call by moving
everything that used to be in param.h into a structure named 'v'.  This
was done so that binary customers could patch NPROC et al easily, but a
system call that returned the contents of 'v' would be trivial to add.
Maybe we could get AT&T to buy the changes (they're extensive) from UniSoft.

[ 3B20 System V Release 2 has this, so maybe they did.
Personally, I don't like it.  -mod ] 
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	Geoff Kuenning
	{hplabs,ihnp4}!trwrb!desint!geoff

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