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Article #1029Re: ulimit (was: getty/login for callback)
From: Seth Robertson
Date: Tue, 18 Apr 1989 17:18
Date: Tue, 18 Apr 1989 17:18
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In article <10065@smoke.BRL.MIL> gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn) writes: |In article <19516@genrad.UUCP> jpn@genrad.genrad.COM (John P. Nelson) writes: ||Despite the tone, I really would be happy if someone could demonstrate ||a useful purpose for "ulimit". | |It's great for testing whether your application recovers gracefully from |"file system full"-like conditions! There's a *much* better way to determine in your application recovers gracefully from "file system full"-like conditions, and thats to fill up your file system. I don't know about you, but I've never had *any* problem testing that condition (whether I wanted to or not!) -Seth seth@ctr.columbia.edu
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!dptcdc!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!unmvax!deimos.cis.ksu.edu!rutgers!columbia!cunixc!sethr From: sethr@cunixc.cc.columbia.edu (Seth Robertson) Newsgroups: comp.bugs.sys5 Subject: Re: ulimit (was: getty/login for callback) Message-ID: <1423@cunixc.cc.columbia.edu> Date: 18 Apr 89 17:18:21 GMT References: <180001@mechp10.UUCP> <13853@rpp386.Dallas.TX.US> <797@twwells.uucp> <28@wells.UUCP> <399@aucis.UUCP> <501@bilver.UUCP> <19516@genrad.UUCP> <10065@smoke.BRL.MIL> Reply-To: seth@ctr.columbia.edu (Seth Robertson) Organization: Columbia University: Center for Telecommunications Research Lines: 15