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Article #1065Re: ulimit (was: getty/login for callback)
From: David A. Wilson
Date: Thu, 27 Apr 1989 02:55
Date: Thu, 27 Apr 1989 02:55
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From article <4428@ihuxz.ATT.COM>, by burris@ihuxz.ATT.COM (Burris): > The ulimit has NOTHING to do with the assumption that users are stupid > or malicious. It DOES however assume that people make mistakes. Do you > know any programmer who has NEVER hacked up a quick program with an > infinate loop? Ulimit doesn't help at all if your infinite loop creates another file on each pass. You could run out of inodes too! -- David A. Wilson uw-beaver!tikal!slab!sea375!dave
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!bloom-beacon!mit-eddie!uw-beaver!uw-june!uw-entropy!quick!thebes!amc-gw!sigma!sea375!dave From: dave@sea375.UUCP (David A. Wilson) Newsgroups: comp.bugs.sys5 Subject: Re: ulimit (was: getty/login for callback) Message-ID: <251@sea375.UUCP> Date: 27 Apr 89 02:55:23 GMT References: <4428@ihuxz.ATT.COM> Organization: At Home in Seattle, WA Lines: 10