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From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Cnews and old news
Message-ID: <1990Sep25.151857.2107@zoo.toronto.edu>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <26675@mimsy.umd.edu> <1990Sep23.042833.24834@zoo.toronto.edu> <1990Sep25.025244.27071@fts1.uucp>
Date: Tue, 25 Sep 90 15:18:57 GMT

In article <1990Sep25.025244.27071@fts1.uucp> michael@fts1.uucp (Michael Richardson) writes:
>... the dbz
>routines hit the ulimit... and start dying. 
>  It might be a good idea to stick some code into setnewsids to deal with
>this situation...

Unfortunately, the existence of ulimit() is system-dependent.  Sane systems
don't have it.  See further comments about it in notebook/problems.
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