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From: chris@umcp-cs.UUCP (Chris Torek)
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Subject: Re: maxusers in config file (4BSD)
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Date: Mon, 21-Jan-85 11:31:49 EST
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Posted: Mon Jan 21 11:31:49 1985
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Organization: U of Maryland, Computer Science Dept., College Park, MD
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[Please excuse the ravings; this is one of my favorite subjects for
frothing at the mouth]

> In order to comply with AT&T's restrictions on binary licenses, we've
> added a maxusers() system call that returns the value from the
> config maxusers parameter.

ANOTHER SYSTEM CALL just for ONE STUPID INTEGER?!  What is this anyway?
How about having a single system call, ``getinterestingkernelnumber'',
which takes an argument describing which integer to return?

[There, I feel much better now...]
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