Path: utzoo!attcan!lsuc!eci386!woods
From: woods@eci386.uucp (Greg A. Woods)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: (C News) limit filesize and inews
Message-ID: <1991Jan9.184355.24406@eci386.uucp>
Date: 9 Jan 91 18:43:55 GMT
References: <1991Jan7.182907.13583@zoo.toronto.edu> <3480@gazette.bcm.tmc.edu> <1991Jan08.180949.8613@decuac.dec.com> <3521@gazette.bcm.tmc.edu>
Reply-To: woods@eci386.UUCP (Greg A. Woods)
Organization: Elegant Communications, Inc.
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In article <3521@gazette.bcm.tmc.edu> sob@tmc.edu (Stan Barber) writes:
> I wonder how "special" my special case is. Perhaps System V-style filesize
> limiting is not as widespread as I thought. I was under the impressions that
> there were a bunch of 386 unix varients out there that had this stuff in in.

Yup, including all UNIX System V's, since it has been in the SVID
since issue 1, vol. 1, and it's part of the Base OS.  However, very
few sys-admins have been dumb enough to leave ULIMIT(1) at anything so
low as the 2048 blocks some vendors ship the OS with.  My personal
choice is always set it a some near-infinite number, such as 1024*1024.
-- 
							Greg A. Woods
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